demente
Dictionary entries
- Entry →demo, demere, dempsi, demptus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
take/cut away/off, remove, withdraw; subtract; take away from;
abl. sg. pres. act. part. - Entry →demens, dementis (gen.), dementior -or -us, dementissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
out of one's mind/senses; demented, mad, wild, raving; reckless, foolish;
abl. sg. (all)
Examples
- L
Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...priorem habitum redit, potum aut exanimat aut dementes facit. Quare id accidat quaerenti m�hi illud occurrit. Inest..." - L
ad Helviam
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...humi cenent et remoto auro argentoque fictilibus utantur. Dementes! hoc quod aliquando concupiscunt semper timent. O quanta illos..." - L
Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...remota ab aliena iniuria quam a sua. 2. Dementes itaque et ignari ueritatis illis inputant saeuitiam maris, inmodicos..." - L
Octavia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...sontem arguat? Ne. Populi furor. Prf. Quis regere dementes ualet? Ne. Qui concitare potuit. Prf. Haud quemquam, reor..." - M
In Catilinam III
Marcus Tullius Cicero from Catilinarian Orations
"...sollicitatio, iam] ab Lentulo ceterisque domesticis hostibus tam dementer tantae res creditae et ignotis et barbaris commissaeque litterae..." - P
Metamorphoses IV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...modum sibi fecit in illa. tabuit ex illo dementer amoribus usa; nympharum inpatiens et sub Iove nocte dieque..." - G
Invectiva in Ciceronem
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust) from SPURIA
"...potentiae faves; qui tibi ante optimates videbantur, eosdem dementes ac furiosos vocas. Vatini causam agis, de Sestio male..."