menda
From LSJ
Ῥύπος γυνὴ πέφυκεν ἠργυρωμένος → Woman is silver-plated dirt → Argento sordes illitas puta mulierem → Mit Silber überzogner Schmutz ist eine Frau
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
menda: ae, f. v. mendum,
I 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 istins indoles, Gell. 20, 6, 14; 1, 7, 3.
