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errābundus, a, um, adj. [erro], wandering to and fro, wandering about (rare; not in Cic. or Caes.): odor, floating about, Lucr. 4, 692: nunc errabundi domos suos pervagarentur, Liv. 1, 29; cf. Suet. Caes. 31: naves (with dispersae), Auct. B. Afr. 2, 4: naves vagabantur, ib. 21, 3: trieris, ib. 44, 2: agmen, Curt. 8, 4, 6.
Poet. transf.: vestigia bovis, Verg. E. 6, 58.
* errantia, ae, f. [erro], a wandering: animi, Att. ap. Non. 204, 13 (Rib. Fragm. Trag. p. 196).
errātĭcus, a, um, adj. [erro], wandering to and fro, wandering about, roving, erratic (mostly ante-class. and post-Aug.).
- I. In gen.: stellae, planets, Auct. ap. Gell. 3, 10, 2; 14, 1, 11; 18; Sen. Q. N. 7, 23: Delos, Ov. M. 6, 333: homo, Gell. 9, 2, 6: sanguis, i. e. herpetic, Plin. 26, 13, 84, § 136; cf. transf.: vitis serpens multiplici lapsu et erratico, * Cic. de Sen. 15, 52.
- II. Esp. in botany, of plants that spring up here and there wild, i. q. silvestris, wild: brassica, Cato R. R. 157, 12; Plin. 20, 9, 36, § 92: cucumis, id. 20, 2, 4, § 9: intubum, id. 19, 8, 39, § 129: salix, Vitr. 8, 1.
errātĭlis, e, adj. [erro], wandering: ferae, Cassiod. Var. 1, 21.
errātĭo, ōnis, f. [erro], a wandering, roving about.
- I. Lit.: hac multo propius ibis et minor est erratio, Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 41; Plaut. Rud. 1, 2, 90; Cic. N. D. 2, 21, 56; id. Univ. 6.
- II. Trop.: in factis dictisque, Lact. 5, 17, 29; Hyg. Astr. 2, 2.
‡ errātīvus (al. ERRATICIVS) animus est, qui solet errare et desinit, Fronto de Differ. Voc. p. 2200 P.
errātor, ōris, m. [erro], a wanderer, Fest. p. 344, 34.
Transf., of the river Maeander: terris totiens crrator in isdem, Ov. H. 9, 55.
errātum, i, n., v. 1. erro, I. B. 2. b.
errātus, ūs, m. [erro], a wandering, roving about (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): longis erratibus actus, Ov. M. 4, 567.
1. erro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and a. [root er-, to go; desiderative forms, ἔρχομαι (ἐρσκ-); and Lat. (ers-o) erro, to seek to reach; hence, to wander; cf. Germ. irren; Engl. err, etc., v. Curt. Gr. Etym. p. 546 sq.].
- I. Neutr.
- A. In gen.
- 1. Prop., to wander, to wander or stray about, to wander up and down, to rove (freq. and class.; cf. vagor, palor): propter te errans patria careo, Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 16; cf.: cum vagus et exsul erraret, Cic. Clu. 62, 175: ignari hominumque locorumque Erramus vento huc et vastis fluctibus acti, Verg. A. 1, 333; cf. id. ib. 1, 32; 3, 200; Ov. M. 3, 175; id. F. 2, 335 et saep.: circum villulas nostras, Cic. Att. 8, 9, 3: pios per lucos, Hor. C. 3, 4, 7: inter audaces lupus errat agnos, id. ib. 3, 18, 13; cf. of beasts, id. S. 1, 8, 35; id. Epod. 2, 12; Verg. E. 1, 9; 2, 21; 6, 40; id. G. 4, 11 et saep.
Pass. impers.: male tum Libyae solis erratur in agris, Verg. G. 3, 249.
Prov.: in media luce errare, Sen. Ben. 5, 6, 3.
- b. Transf., of inanimate things: (stellae) quae errantes et quasi vagae nominantur, Cic. Rep. 1, 14; so of the planets, id. N. D. 2, 20; 3, 20; id. Tusc. 1, 25, 62; Plin. 2, 6, 4, § 12; Vulg. Jud. 13; cf. of the motion of the stars in gen., Hor. Ep. 1, 12, 17: Cocytus errans flumine languido, id. C. 2, 14, 18; cf. Verg. G. 3, 14: errantesque per altum Cyaneae, Val. Fl. 4, 561: hic lintres errare videres, Ov. F. 2, 391: vidi ad frontem sparsos errare capillos, i. e. flying about, Prop. 2, 1, 7; cf. id. 2, 22, 9: errantia lumina, i. e. moving fitfully about, Prop. 3, 14, 27 (4, 13, 27 M.); cf. Stat. Th. 10, 150: pulmonibus errat Ignis edax, i. e. spreads, runs about, Ov. M. 9, 201 et saep.
- 2. Trop., to wander, stray at random: ne vagari et errare cogatur oratio, Cic. de Or., 48, 209; cf.: erraus et vaga sententia (opp. stabilis certaque), id. N. D. 2, 1, 2: eo fit, ut errem et vager latius, id. Ac. 2, 20, 66: ut ingredi libere, non ut licenter videatur errare, id. Or. 23, 77: errans opinio (opp. stabilis conscientia), id. Fin. 2, 22, 71: dubiis affectibus errat, Ov. M. 8, 473: ne tuus erret honos, be in doubt, uncertain, id. F. 1, 468; cf. id. ib. 3, 543.
Poet., with a rel.-clause: erro, quam insistas viam, I am uncertain, in doubt, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 197; cf.: inter recens et vetus sacramentum, i. e. to hesitate, vacillate, Tac. H. 4, 58.
- B. In partic., to miss the right way, to lose one’s self, go astray (in the literal sense rarely, but in the trop. freq. and class.).
- 1. Lit.: homo qui erranti comiter monstrat viam, Enn. ap. Cic. Off. 1, 16, 51: errare viā, Verg. A. 2, 739: maledictus qui errare facit caecum in itinere, Vulg. Deut. 27, 18.
- 2. Trop., to wander from the truth, to err, mistake: avius errat Saepe animus, Lucr. 3, 463; cf. id. 2, 740: totā erras viā, Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 14; cf.: in eo non tu quidem totà re, sed temporibus errasti, Cic. Phil. 2, 9 fin.: longe, Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 40; cf. procul, Sall. J. 85, 38 Kritz. N. cr.: errant probe, Plaut. Am. 3, 3, 20: vehementer, Cic. Ac. 2, 32, 103: valde, id. de Or. 2, 19, 83 et saep.: errare malo cum Platone quam cum istis vera sentire, Cic. Tusc. 1, 17, 39; cf. id. Balb. 28, 64: erras, si id credis, Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 53; so with si, id. Hec. 4, 4, 60; Caes. B. G. 5, 41, 5; 7, 29, 2 et saep.: de nostris verbis errat, Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 22: in aliqua re, Quint. 6, 3, 112; 10, 2, 21; 11, 1, 81 al.: in alteram partem, id. 10, 1, 26; cf.: in alienos fetus, Liv. 31, 12, 8.
Less freq. with acc. of a neutr. pronoun: mone, quaeso, si quid erro, Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 30; so with quid, Ter. And. 3, 2, 18; Quint. 2, 5, 16; 2, 3, 11; 2, 6, 6: hoc, Ter. Phorm. 5, 3, 21.
Poet. also with the acc. of a noun: errabant tempora, i. e. in chronology, Ov. F. 3, 155.
Pass. impers.: si fuit errandum, Ov. H. 7, 109: si nihil esset erratum, Quint. 6, 5, 7: si erratur in nomine, Cic. Fin. 4, 20 fin.; cf.: tutius circa priores erratur, Quint. 2, 5, 26: uno verbo esse erratum, id. 7, 3, 17.
Sometimes, in a palliative manner, of moral error, to err through mistake: pariter te errantem et illum sceleratissimum persequi, Sall. J. 102, 5; cf. id. ib. 104, 4.
Hence,
- b. errātum, i, n., an error, mistake, fault: illud de Flavio et fastis, si secus est, commune erratum est, Cic. Att. 6, 1, 18; cf. id. ib. 13, 44 fin.: cujus errato nulla venia, recte facto exigua laus proponitur, id. Agr. 2, 2, 5; id. Fam. 5, 20, 8: nullum ob totius vitae non dicam vitium, sed erratum, id. Clu. 48; cf. id. Lig. 1; id. Sull. 23; and in plur., id. Fam. 16, 21, 2; Sall. J. 102, 10; Ov. Pont. 2, 3, 66.
- II. Act. in Aug. poets (only in part. perf.), to wander over or through: immensum est erratas dicere terras, Ov. F. 4, 573: ager, id. ib. 3, 655: orbis, Val. Fl. 4, 447: litora, Verg. A. 3, 690.
2. erro, ōnis, m. [1. erro], a wanderer, vagabond, vagrant, Tib. 2, 6, 6; Ov. H. 15, 53.
Used esp. of slaves: ut errones aliquem cujus dicantur invenient, Plin. Ep. 2, 10, 5; Edict. Aedil. ap. Gell. 4, 2, 1; Dig. 21, 1, 17, § 14; 49, 16, 4 fin.; Hor. S. 2, 7, 113.
Of the queen-bee: dux, Col. 9, 10 fin.
Of the planets, Nigid. ap. Gell. 3, 10, 2; 14, 1, 11.
Of vagabond soldiers: nec nostros servire sinant errorribus agros, Verg. Dir. 70 Rib.
errōnĕus, a, um, adj. [1. erro], wandering about, straying: vagus atque erroneus, Sen. Ben. 6, 11, 2: canes, Col. 7, 12, 5: erroneus, ἀλήτης, πλάνος, Gloss. Labb.
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 m 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.