pellācĭa

ae, f.

pellax

I. an allurement, enticement, blandishment.
I. In gen. (poet. and very rare; in Verg. G. 4, 443, fallacia is the correct read.; v. Wagner ad loc.): placidi pellacia ponti, Lucr. 5, 1004.—
II. In partic., seduction (post-class.): Jovialis monumentum pellaciae, Arn. 5, 171; 4, 147.
Lewis & Short
A Latin Dictionary, 1879
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