lapsus memoriae

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin lāpsus memoriae (literally slip of the memory).

Noun

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lapsus memoriae (plural lapsus memoriae)

  1. (formal, uncommon) A slip of memory; an instance of forgetting.
    • 1980, Netta Zagagi, Tradition and Originality in Plautus: Studies of the Amatory Motifs in Plautine Comedy, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 55:
      120 On account of the mistake made in line 3 in the reference to the boar (Aetolicus instead of Erymanthius). Prescott (art. cit. (1932), p. 113, n. 7) and Tierney (art. cit., pp. 28f.), however, have both pointed out that similar lapsus memoriae are to be found among Greek Comic writers and therefore, passages containing such mistakes need not inevitably be attributed to the Roman adapter.

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