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dēmentĭa , ae,
I.f [demens], the being out of one's mind; insanity, madness; folly (freq. and class.; “for syn. cf.: amentia, furor, rabies, vecordia, insania, deliratio, vesania): animi affectionem lumine mentis carentem nominaverunt amentiam eandemque dementiam,” Cic. Tusc. 3, 5, 10; Ter. Ad. 4, 7, 40; Lucr. 1, 705; Cic. Cat. 4, 10, 22; Nep. Pelop. 3, 2; Caes. B. G. 4, 13; Sall. C. 42, 2; Quint. 7, 3, 2; Tib. 1, 2, 11; Verg. E. 2, 69; id. A. 5, 465; 9, 601; Juv. 10, 233; Hor. Epod. 17, 45; Ov. M. 13, 225 al.—In plur., follies, Cic. Att. 9, 9 fin.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (10):
    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 9.9
    • Caesar, Gallic War, 4.13
    • Cicero, Against Catiline, 4.10.22
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 13.225
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 5.465
    • Sallust, Catilinae Coniuratio, 42
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 1.705
    • Cornelius Nepos, Pelopidas, 3.2
    • Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, 3.5
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 7, 3.2
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