desipies
Dictionary entries
- Entry →desipio, desipere, desipui, -:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
act/be foolish; be out of one's mind/lose one's reason/lack rational thought;
sg. fut. act. ind. 2nd
Examples
Satura VI
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...mentem uexare mariti et solea pulsare natis. quod desipis, inde est, inde animi caligo et magna obliuio rerum..."Sermones II
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) from Sermones
"...formula reges, excepto sapiente, tenet. nunc accipe, quare desipiant omnes aeque ac tu, qui tibi nomen insano posuere..."