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lympho , āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n. lympha.
I. To water, dilute with water: “admixto vino lymphato, id est, aqua temperato,” Cael. Aur. Tard. 4, 3, 68.—
II. To drive out of one's senses, to distract with fear, to make mad: “urbem,” Val. Fl. 3, 47: “urbes incursibus,” Stat. Th. 7, 113: “hac herba pota lymphari homines,” Plin. 24, 17, 102, § 164. —As neutr.: “lymphantes animi,” driven crazy, mad, Plin. 27, 12, 83, § 107.—Hence, lymphātus , a, um, P. a., distracted, crazy, beside one's self, mad: “exercitum pavor invasit: quippe lymphati trepidare coeperunt,” Curt. 4, 12, 14: “lymphati et attoniti,” Liv. 7, 17, 3: “repente lymphati destrictis gladiis invadunt,” Tac. A. 1, 32: “lymphatis caeco pavore animis,” id. H. 1, 82: “sine more furit lymphata per urbem,” Verg. A. 7, 377: “pectora,” Ov. M. 11, 3: “mens,” Hor. C. 1, 37, 14: “urbs,” Stat. Th. 10, 557: “lymphato cursu ruere,” Sil. 1, 459.
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):
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 11.3
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 7.377
    • Tacitus, Annales, 1.32
    • Tacitus, Historiae, 1.82
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 27.107
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 7, 17
    • C. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, 3.47
    • Statius, Thebias, 10
    • Statius, Thebias, 7
    • Curtius, Historiarum Alexandri Magni, 4.12.14
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