“lie” in Latin

mendacium (as a thing; opposed to verum): vanitas (falsehood, as a property or state; opposed to veritas): a white lie (falsely so called), mendaciunculum (opposed to mendacium magnum), mendacium modestum (opposed to mendacium impudens): an unblushing lie, a bold lie, mendacium confidentissimum: to forge a lie, mendacium componere (☞ struere is rather poetic): to utter pure lies, mera mendacia fundere (comedy): to beware of telling a lie, sibi a mendacio temperate: to come off with a lie, mendacio defungi: to catch anyone in a lie, manifesto modo prehendere aliquem mendacii (Plaut. Bacch., 4, 4, 45); manifestum mendacii aliquem tenere (Plaut., Truc., 1, 2, 30): to stand in a lie, stare a mendacio contra veritatem (Cic., Inv., 1, 3, 4): to convict anybody of a lie, mendacii aliquem coarguere: to give anybody the lie, falsi, or mendacii, aliquem arguere.

i. e., to utter falsehoods, mentiri (knowingly, ψεύδεσθαι; absolutely, or followed by an accusative, or in re, or de re, PROP. and figuratively); mendacium dicere (to utter a lie, ψεῦδος λέγειν, generally; but usually to tell an untruth unknowingly); ementiri (to invent or utter in a lying manner, followed by an accusative or absolutely); falsa pro veris dicere, falsa dicere (to say what is false as true; to offend against truth, whether knowingly or not); falsa fateri (to make a false confession); fallere (figuratively to deceive): to lie not even in jest, ne joco quidem mentiri: to lie as one pleases, libero mendacio uti: can an honorable man lie? num cadit in bonum virum mentiri? he lies as often as he opens his mouth, totus ex mendaciis factus est or constat: he lied in that, hoc or in ea re mentitus est.

i. e., to be situate, etc.

(A) (A) in the narrower sense, to be laid or to have laid itself, PROP. and figuratively, jacere (general term, but especially as opposed to standing, standing upright; hence = to lie, with the idea of weakness); situm esse, positum esse (of things without life; to be situate, etc. [rarely jacere in this sense]; also of persons buried); cubare (to lie resting, as opposed to moving one’s self, etc., always with the idea of having stretched one’s self out at ease, whether real or apparent; hence in prose only of living beings, whether they rest, sleep, take food, or are sick); recubare, recumbere (to be in a recumbent posture); accubare, accumbere (to lie at a place, or of several, to lie one with another anywhere, especially of reclining at table): to lie at or near a person or thing, jacere ad, etc.; adjacere alicui rei, or ad aliquem, or aliquid (of persons and things); appositum, applicatum esse alicui rei (to be laid on anything, of things): to lie upon anything, alicui rei or in aliquo loco incubare (to have stretched one’s self on anything): aliqua re inniti (to support one’s self on anything; e.g., on the elbows; of persons) situm, positum esse in aliqua re or in aliquo loco (to be laid upon anything; of things): to lie upon, superincubare (of persons; Vid: above, cubare) superimpositum esse (to be laid upon; of things); superstratum esse (to be strewed upon, of things; then, to have been thrown upon, of persons): to lie under, succubare (of persons); substratum esse (to be strewed under; then, to be laid or thrown under, of things and persons): to lie in anything, jacere in aliqua re (general term); positum esse in aliqua re (of things): to lie on the ground, humi jacere humi stratum jacere (of persons and things); humi cubare, in solo recubare (in rest or sleep, of persons); prostratum esse, dirutum jacere (to be thrown down, of things): to lie upon the face, in os pronum jacere (general term); in faciem cubare (resting on a bed or couch; opposed to supinum cubare, i. e., to lie upon the back, Juv., 3, 280): to lie in bed, in lecto jacere or esse; jacere; cubare (general term, also as a sick person); lecto teneri, affixum esse (to be obliged to keep one’s bed): to lie (sick) in bed on account of anything, cubare ex (e.g., ex duritie alvi): to lie in (of child-bed), puerperio cubare: to lie in the arms of anyone, haerere in alicujus complexu: to lie at the feet of anyone, alicui ad pedes jacere, stratum esse, or stratum jacere (also as a suppliant): to let lie, sinere (general term); non auferre (not to take away, not to do away, a thing); facere, ut aliquid jaceat (to cause anything to lie; e.g., in aqua); aliquid abjicere, omittere, intermittere (figuratively, to give up, leave off); abjicere et omittere (entirely); intermittere (for a time): to lie a-bed, in lecto se continere (lo remain in bed; of persons); non surgere (not to rise, of anyone lying down): to lie motionless or helpless, se erigere non posse: the snow still lies (nives non liquescunt): I have money lying idle, pecunia otiosa mihi jacet (not at interest, Pandect.): nummos numeratos habeo (I have ready money, so as to be able to make payment when due).

(B) (B) in a wider sense, (l) to have a certain position, especially of places and countries, jacere (generally, of natural or artificial localities, but especially of a low situation); situm esse, positum esse (the former both of natural localities [Vid: Cic., Verr., 4, 48, 106, of a village] and of artificial; positum esse, only of artificial localities, especially of higher ones): to lie at or near a place, aliquem locum adjacere; aliquem locum tangere, attingere, contingere (general term): alicui loco applicatum, appositum esse (to be built or placed upon anything, only of artificial localities; e.g., of a camp): to lie in a place, in aliquo loco jacere, situm esse, positum esse: to lie over against a place, e regione or ex adverso alicujus loci jacere, situm esse: to lie on this side of a place, cis locum jacere: to lie toward a place, jacere, situm esse ad locum versus (general term); prospicere locum, prospectum dare ad locum (to look toward a place, of a room, etc.): to lie toward a quarter of the heavens, vergere, spectare in or ad, etc. [e.g., toward the north); in or ad septentriones: Aquitania lies in a north-west direction: Aquitania spectat inter occasum solis et septentriones lying toward the north, toward the west, in septentrionem versus, ad occidentem versus: to lie higher, or above a place, jacere supra, etc.: to lie in a circle round a place, circa locum in orbem situm esse, locum ambire (e.g., of islands): to lie under a place, alicui loco subjacere, subjectum esse; jacere sub aliquo loco: to lie close under a mountain, jacere sub radicibus montis: to lie before a place, jacere, situm esse ante locum: to lie near, procul abesse; propinquum esse: to lie far apart, magno locorum intervallo disjunctum esse: to lie at an equal distance apart, pari intervallo distare: the eyes lie deep, oculi introrsus retracti sunt. (2) To be a long time in a place or state (of persons), versari, commorari, esse (general term to tarry in a place); in praesidio esse or collocatum esse (of a garrison); jacere, sedere (to stay, abide anywhere, with the idea of inactive rest, as opposed to acting, like Greek κεῖσθαι): to lie before a town, ad urbem sedere (to lie inactive before it): to lie in quarters anywhere, stativa habere aliquo loco: to lie encamped, in castris esse. (3) Figuratively. To have a foundation in, to depend upon, consist with, situm esse in aliquo or in aliqua re (to depend upon); versari in aliqua re (to turn upon); cerni in aliqua re (to show itself in); niti (in) aliqua re (to have its chief support in): it lies with us, with circumstances, situm est in nobis, in temporibus: as much as lies in me, quantum in me situm est; pro viribus; ut potero: (☞ not pro parte virili. thefault lies with him, is est in culpa; culpa est penes eum (comedy): in what lies the hindrance? quid impedit? the reason lies in this, that, etc., causa est in eo, quod, etc., the difference lies in this, that, etc., discrimen versatur, cernitur in eo, quod, etc.: it lay not in the character of the king to, etc., rex non is erat, qui (with a subjunctive).