I.distracted, frantic, panic-struck: “pavor,” a panic, Liv. 10, 28, 10; 7, 17, 3: “metus,” Sen. Ep. 13, 9: “somnia,” Plin. 26, 8, 34, § 52: “elleborum medetur melancholicis, insanientibus, lymphaticis,” id. 25, 5, 24, § 60.—
II. Transf.
A. Comically: “lymphatici nummi,” that cannot keep quiet in one's purse, as if mad, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 135 Weise (al. lymphati).—
B. lymphātĭcum , i, n., the disease of a lymphaticus, insanity: “faxo actutum constiterit lymphaticum,” Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 136.