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
- T
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..." - Q
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..."