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μα^νι^κός , ή, όν, (μανία)
A.of or for madness, mad, “μ. πράγματα” Ar.V. 1496; [νόσημα] Hp.Aph.3.20; βλέπει μανικόν τι she has a madwoman's eye, Ar.Pl.424; -“ωτέρα ἡδονή” Pl.R.403a; ἡ-κή madness, Id.Phdr.244c; μανικόν symptom of madness, Hp.Prog.3; οὐ μανικόν ἐστ᾽ ἐν οἰκία τρέφειν ταὧς; Anaxandr.28, cf. Epicur.Ep.2p.53U.; “νοσῶν τι μ.” Timocl.6.12. Adv. -“κῶς, περιφέρεσθαι” X.Cyn.3.5; “πυρέττειν” Plu. Alex.75.
2. generally, mad, extravagant, Isoc.1.15, Pl.Prt.343c, etc.; σωφρόνημα λίαν μ. dub. l. in X.Ages.5.4; “μ. ἱππωνίαι” Id.Eq. Mag.1.12. Adv. -“κῶς, διακεῖσθαι” Pl.Phdr.249d; “ἔχειν” Id.Sph.216d; “ὰλόγως καὶ μ.” Isoc.5.65, cf. Phld.Ir.p.82 W.
II. disposed to madness, Pl.Smp.173d (dub.); unbalanced, Id.Sph.242a.
2. frenzied, enthusiastic, inspired, “εὐφυοῦς ἡ ποιητική ἐστιν ἢ μανικοῦ” Arist.Po.1455 a33; “ἐξίσταται τὰ εὐφυᾶ γένη εἰς -ώτερα ἤθη” Id.Rh.1390b29; “νοσήματα μ. καὶ ἐνθουσιαστικά” Id.Pr.954a36.
III. Act., causing madness, στρύχνος （-ον) Thphr.HP9.11.5, Dsc.4.73, Gal.11.767; μανικόν, τό, = δορύκνιον, Plin.HN21.179, cf. Dsc.Alex.6; “φάρμακα” Plu.Arat.54.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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