I.to wander in mind, to talk idly, prate, dream (syn.: “aberro, deliro, desipio, insanio): alucinari: aberrare et non consistere, atque dissolvi et obstupefieri atque tardari,” Non. 121, 20 (apparently not used before the time of Cic., yet cf. alucinatio): “quae Epicurus oscitans alucinatus est,” Cic. N. D. 1, 26, 72: “suspicor hunc alucinari,” id. Att. 15, 29; Gell. 16, 12, 3: “indicium vagi animi et alucinantis,” id. 4, 20, 8: epistolae nostrae debent interdum alucinari, to follow no definite train of thought, to digress freely, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 9: “alucinans pastor,” Col. 7, 3, 26.
ālūcĭnor (better than all- or hall- ; cf. Gron. ad Gell. 16, 12, 3), ātus, 1, v. dep. prob. from ἀλύω, ἀλύσσω; ἄλη, ἀλύκη; cf. Gell. 16, 12, 3,
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.
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