mendaciuncula

Updated: May 16, 2025

It goes no farther than to suggest that amount of exaggeration which is used by every teller of a good story in order that the story may be good. Such "mendaciuncula" are in the mouth of every diner-out in London, and we may pity the dinner-parties at which they are not used.

Anthony Trollope - The Life of Cicero : Volume One