Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges, chapter 358

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[*] 358. The apparent Genitive animī (really Locative) is used with a few verbs and adjectives of feeling and the like:—

“Antiphō mē excruciat animī” (Ter. Ph. 187) , Antipho tortures my mind (me in my mind).
“quī pendet animī” (Tusc. 4.35) , who is in suspense.
“mē animīfallit ” (Lucr. 1.922) , my mind deceives me.
“So, by analogy, dēsipiēbam mentis” (Pl. Epid. 138) , I was out of my head.
aeger animī, sick at heart; cōnfūsus animī, disturbed in spirit.
“sānus mentis aut animī” (Pl. Trin. 454) , sound in mind or heart.

Ginn and Company, 1903.

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