I.sleeplessness, want of sleep (class.): consequitur comes insomnia, Caecil. ap. Non. 209, 15: “aut mox noctu te adiget horsum insomnia,” Ter. Eun. 2, 1, 13 Fleck. (Umpfenbach, adigent, v. insomnium): “incitabatur insomnia,” Suet. Cal. 50.—In plur.: “neque insomniis, neque labore fatigari,” Sall. C. 27, 2: “insomniis carere,” Cic. de Sen. 13, 44.
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insomnĭa , ae, f. (plur. insomnia, n., Plin. 20, 9, 33, § 82; Prop. 2, 25, 47; Val. Fl. 1, 329; 7, 6; 2, 140) [insomnis],