desipite
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;
pl. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
Liber III
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...concidit et spumas agit, ingemit et tremit artus, desipit, extentat nervos, torquetur, anhelat inconstanter, et in iactando membra..."Sermones II
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) from Sermones
"...nihilum distabit an ira. Aiax inmeritos cum occidit desipit agnos: cum prudens scelus ob titulos admittis inanis, stas..."