menda, ae, f. [v. mendum], a fault, defect, blemish of the body (poet. and postAug.).
I Lit.: in toto nusquam corpore menda fuit, Ov. Am. 1, 5, 18: nocte latent mendae, id. A. A. 1, 249.—
II Transf., a mistake, error, blunder , in writing, in books, a slip of the pen , Suet. Aug. 87: mendae istius indoles, Gell. 20, 6, 14; 1, 7, 3.