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fallācĭa, ae (abl. also fallacie, App. M. 5, p. 171), f. [fallax], deceit, trick, artifice, stratagem, craft, intrigue (class.; in Cic. only plur.; syn.: fraus, dolus, astus, astutia, calliditas).

  1. I. Prop.
          1. (α) Plur.: nonne ab imis unguibus usque ad verticem summum ex fraude, fallaciis, mendaciis constare totus videtur? Cic. Rosc. Com. 7, 20: doli, machinae, fallaciae, praestigiae, id. N. D. 3, 29, 73: fraudes atque fallaciae, id. Clu. 36, 101: simulatione et fallaciis, id. de Or. 2, 46, 191: sine fuco ac fallaciis, id. Att. 1, 1, 1: quot admoenivi fabricas! quot fallacias! Plaut. Cist. 2, 2, 5.
            So in plur., Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 13; 16; 20; id. Mil. 2, 2, 37 et saep.
          2. (β) Sing.: per malitiam et per dolum et fallaciam, Plaut. Ps. 2, 4, 15; id. Capt. prol. 40; 46; 2, 1, 25; id. As. 1, 1, 54; 2, 1, 2; 4 al.; Phaedr. 1, 31, 5; 3, 16, 10: ausculta quod superest fallaciae, Ter. Heaut. 4, 5, 23; Suet. Tib. 62; Flor. 1, 16, 7 al.
            Of magical art, Prop. 1, 1, 19 al.
            Prov.: fallacia alia aliam trudit, one lie begets another, Ter. And. 4, 4, 39.
  2. II. Of things: haec ipsa res habet aliquam fallaciam, deception, Col. 11, 2, 68: peccati, Vulg. Hebr. 3, 13; cf. id. Matt. 13, 22.

fallācĭes, ēi, v. fallacia init.

* fallācĭlŏquus, a, um, adj. [fallaxloquor], speaking deceitfully or falsely: fallaciloquae malitiae, Att. ap. Cic. Fin. 4, 25, 68.

fallācĭōsus, a, um, adj. [fallacia], deceitful, deceptive, fallacious (post-class.): argumenta (with vafra), Gell. 7, 3, 34: ambages, id. 14, 1, 34: promissio, App. M. 8, p. 205, 9.

fallācĭtas, ātis, f. [fallax], deceit, artifice, = fallacia, Cassiod. Amic. 46, 2.

fallācĭter, adv., v. fallax fin.

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), more uncertain, 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.

        1. (β) With gen.: homines amicitiae fallaces, Tac. A. 16, 32.
        2. (γ) 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.