amenti
Dictionary entries
- Entry →amentum, amenti:
Neuter · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
throwing-strap, thong/loop attached to spear for throwing; (shoe) thong/strap;
gen. sg.loc. sg. - Entry →amens, amentis (gen.), amentior -or -us, amentissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
insane, demented, out of one's mind; very excited, frantic, distracted; foolish;
abl. sg. (all)dat. sg. (all)
Examples
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Libri XI-XIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...aliis timenda contemnere. Aut si stulti et amentis est mala non timere, quo quis prudentior est, hoc timebit..." - M
Liber IV
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...causis repetundarum omnibusque quae simplices non sunt; amentis est enim superstitione praeceptorum contra rationem causae trahi. LXXXVI. Narrationem..." - G
Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...misera, extremis proferre medullis cogor inops, ardens, amenti caeca furore. quae quoniam verae nascuntur pectore..." - P
Metamorphoses VII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...opem; quod dextera librat dum mea, dum digitos amentis addere tempto, lumina deflexi. revocataque rursus eodem rettuleram: medio..." - P
Ars Amatoria II
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Ars Amatoria
"...Quaeque morer meme sustineamque rogent. Aspiciam dominae victos amentis ocellos: Langueat, et tangi se vetet illa diu. Haec..." - T
Liber XXX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...posset, facile uobis appareret non laeti sed prope amentis malis cordis hunc quem increpatis risum esse; qui tamen..."