error, ōris, m. [1. erro], a wandering.
I In gen., a wandering , straying or strolling about (rare and mostly poet.).
A Lit.: ad quos Ceres in illo errore venisse dicitur, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 49, § 108: error ac dissipatio civium (sc. mercatorum), id. Rep. 2, 4, 7 Mos. (cf. erratio, I.): navium pars ex errore eodem conferebatur, Auct. B. Afr. 11; cf. Ov. H. 16, 29; id. M. 14, 484; id. Tr. 4, 10, 100; Verg. A. 1, 755; 6, 532 et saep.—Transf., of the motion of atoms, Lucr. 2, 132; of the meanderings of rivers, Ov. M. 1, 582; of the mazes of the labyrinth, id. ib. 8, 161; 167.—
B Trop., a wavering , uncertainty : fluctuat incertis erroribus ardor amantum, Lucr. 4, 1077: nec, quid corde nunc consili capere possim, Scio, tantus cum cura meo est error animo, Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 13; cf. Liv. 9, 15; 45; 27, 47; Ov. F. 5, 362 al.; so, too, with obj. gen. : viarum, uncertainty , ignorance , Liv. 24, 17; cf. veri, Tac. H. 2, 72.—
II In partic., a wandering from the right way , a going astray.
A Lit. (very seldom): reduxit me usque ex errore in viam, Plaut. Ps. 2, 3, 2; Curt. 5, 13 fin. —
B Trop., a departing from the truth , an error , mistake , delusion (class.; cf.: erratum, vitium, peccatum): erroris ego illos et. dementiae complebo, Plaut. Am. 1, 2, 8: opinionibus vulgi rapimur in errorem nec vera cernimus, Cic. Leg. 2, 17, 43; cf.: inducere imperitos in errorem, id. Brut. 85, 293; Nep. Hann. 9, 3: errore quodam fallimur in disputando, Cic. Rep. 3, 35: si errorem velis tollere, id. ib. 1, 24: errorem tollere, id. ib. 2, 10; id. Fin. 1, 11, 37: deponere, id. Phil. 8, 11, 32: eripere alicui, id. Att. 10, 4, 6: demere, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 140 et saep.: mentis, i. e. distraction , insanity , Cic. Att. 3, 13, 2; cf. Hor. A. P. 454; Verg. G. 3, 513; so poet. of other kinds of mental perturbation, as fear, Ov. F. 3, 555; love, Verg. E. 8, 41; Ov. Am. 1, 10, 9; cf. ib. 1, 2, 35; id. M. 10, 342: aut aliquis latet error; equo ne credite, Teucri, some deception , Verg. A. 2, 48; cf. Liv. 22, 1: par forma aut aetas errorem agnoscentibus fecerat, Tac. A. 4, 63: jaculum detulit error in Idam, Ov. M. 5, 90.—
β Esp., an error in language , a solecism , Quint. 1, 5, 47.—
γ Rarely a moral error , fault (cf. erro, I. B. 2.), Ov. Pont. 4, 8, 20; cf. id. ib. 2, 2, 57; 2, 3, 92.—
δ Error, personif. , = Ἄτη, the inspirer of folly or judicial blindness , Ov. M. 12, 59.