Fallax, fallâcis, pe. pro. om. g. Deceitful: beguiling: craftie.Alea fallax.Ouid. Amica fallax. Ouid.Amicitia fallax.Ouid. Amor fallax. Seneca. Vani & fallaces astrologi.Cic.Aula fallax. Sene. Fallax coniectura. Plin. A false coniecture.Fallax conuallis. Plin. Fiducia fallax. Ouid.Fallax hamus. Mart. The deceitful hooke with a baite.Fallaces herbæ.Cic.Hearbes not yeelding so muche fruite as is looked for.Fallaces homines. Catul. Deceitfull men.Fallax imitatío.Cic.False imitation.Insidiæ fallaces. Valer. Flac. Fallax interpres.Cic. Iudicia fallacia. Cic.Merces fallaces & fucosæ. Ci. False and coÛterfaited wares.Norma fallax Lucret.A false rule.Fallax aut dubia obseruatio. Plin. A false and vncertaine obseruation.Puella fallax. Tibul. Fallacissimo sensu iudicare. Cic.Senrentia hominum fallax.Ouid.Seruus fallax.Ouid. Simulacrum fallax. Sil. Fallax spes.Liu.False and deceitfull hope.Tenebræ fallaces.Val. Flac. Vates non fallax. Tibul. Viæ fallaces.Ouid. Vita fallax. Senec.Vultu fallaci blandita fortuna.Senec.Vndis fallacior.Ouid.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
fallax, ācis (gen. plur. fallacium, Cic. Lael. 25, 91 al.; but fallacum, Cat. 30, 4), adj. [fallo], deceitful, deceptive, fallacious (class.; esp. freq. in Cic.; syn.: captiosus, fraudulentus, subdolus, dolosus, vafer, astutus, callidus): age, barbari (astrologi) vani atque fallaces: num etiam Graiorum historia mentita est?Cic. Div. 1, 19, 37: levium hominum atque fallacium, id. Lael. 25, 91; for which: facta impia fallacum hominum, Cat. 30, 4: vicinitas non assueta mendaciis, non fucosa, non fallax, non erudita artificio simulationis, Cic. Planc. 9, 22: posita fallacis imagine tauri, Ov. M. 3, 1 et saep.—Of inanim. and abstr. things: ut tamquam in herbis non fallacibus fructus appareat, Cic. Lael. 19, 68: (with fucosae) merces, id. Rab. Post. 14, 40: arva, Ov. A. A. 1, 401: siliquae, Verg. G. 1, 195: austri, id. A. 5, 850: herba veneni, id. E. 4, 24: vada, Plin. 5, 31, 34, 128: genus tutius sed magis fallax (sc. venandi),
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, id. 8, 8, 8, 26 et saep.: spe falsa atque fallaci, Cic. Phil. 12, 2 fin.; so, spes, id. Mil. 34, 94: et captiosae interrogationes, id. Ac. 2, 15, 46: imitatio simulatioque virtutis, id. ib. 2, 46, 140: malitia est versuta et fallax nocendi ratio, id. N. D. 3, 30, 75.—Prov.: fallaces sunt rerum species, Sen. Ben. 4, 34, 1.— Comp.: fallacior undis, Ov. M. 13, 799: quid enim fallacius illis (vocibus)?id. R. Am. 687.—Sup.: oculorum fallacissimo sensu judicare, Cic. Div. 2, 43, 91.—(b). With gen.: homines amicitiae fallaces, Tac. A. 16, 32.—(g). With dat.: Planasia navigiis fallax, Plin. 3, 6, 12, 80.—Hence, adv.: fallācĭter, deceitfully, fallaciously (cf.: falso, perperam): ratio hoc postulat, ne quid insidiose, ne quid simulate, ne quid fallaciter, Cic. Off. 3, 17, 68; id. Div. 1, 18, 35; id. Part. Or. 25, 90.—Sup.: fallacissime, Plin. 12, 16, 35, 71.