Dementia, huius dementiæ, f. g. Cicero. Madnes: folly: lacke of witte.Aspera dementia. Propert. Dementia operæ. Plin. Robusta vetúsque dementia. Clau. The strong and olde fury of warre.Dementia deprauatus.Cic.Misseled by raging folly.Quæ te dementia cœpit? Virg.What madnes came into thy minde?Soluere alíquem dementia. Hor. To heale and deliuer from his madnes.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
dēmentĭa, ae, f [demens], the being out of one's mind; insanity, madness; folly (freq. and class.; for syn. cf.: amentia, furor, rabies, vecordia, insania, deliratio, vesania): animi affectionem lumine mentis carentem nominaverunt amentiam eandemque dementiam, Cic. Tusc. 3, 5, 10; Ter. Ad. 4, 7, 40; Lucr. 1, 705; Cic. Cat. 4, 10, 22; Nep. Pelop. 3, 2; Caes. B. G. 4, 13; Sall. C. 42, 2; Quint. 7, 3, 2; Tib. 1, 2, 11; Verg. E. 2, 69; id. A. 5, 465; 9, 601; Juv. 10, 233; Hor. Epod. 17, 45; Ov. M. 13, 225 al.—In plur., follies, Cic. Att. 9, 9 fin.