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.

Reference is made to them now because the use of the word by Cicero, having been misunderstood by some who have treated his name with severity, has been brought forward in proof of his falsehood.

You shall tell a story about a very little man, and say that he is only thirty-six inches.

You know very well that he is more than four feet high.