Insania, insaniæ, f. g. Ter. Madnes: peenishnes: dotage: frowardnes: outragious greatnes.Amabilis insania. Hor. Leuis insania. Hor. Summa insania. Hor. Adiuuare insaniam alicuius.Plaut.Ad insaniam concupiscere.Cic.To desire outragiously.Connectere aliam insaniam, Vide CONNECTO. Insania villarum. Cicer Excessiue sumptuousnes in buylding. houses and places.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
insānĭa, ae, f. [insanus], unsoundness of mind.A. As a disease, madness, insanity, Cels. 3, 18, 2 sqq.—B. As a personal quality, madness, frenzy, folly, senselessness: nomen insaniae significat mentis aegrotationem et morbum, Cic. Tusc. 3, 4, 8: sanitatem animorum positam in tranquillitate quadam constantiaque censebant: his rebus mentem vacuam appellarunt insaniam, id. ib. 3, 4, 9: furorem esse rati sunt, mentis ad omnia caecitatem: quod cum majus esse videatur, quam insania, tamen ejusmodi est, ut furor in sapientem cadere possit, non possit insania, id. ib. 3, 4, 11: concupiscere aliquid ad insaniam,
to madness
, id. Verr. 2, 2, 35, 87: favere alicui ad insaniam, Suet. Cal. 55: adigere ad insaniam, Ter. Ad. 1, 2, 31: scelerata belli, Verg. A. 7, 461: quae tanta insania, cives?id. ib. 2, 42: nudus agas, minus est insania turpis, Juv. 2, 71 al.—(b).Plur.: hunc intem periae insaniaeque agitant senem, Plaut. Aul. 4, 4, 15: incideram in hominum pugnandi cupidorum insanias, Cic. Fam. 4, 1, 1. —II.Trop.A.Madness, i. e. excess, extravagance in any thing: villarum, Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 2, 5: libidinum, id. Sull. 25, 70: ut appareret, quam ab sano initio res in hanc insaniam venerit, Liv 7, 2, 13: mensarum, Plin. 13, 15, 29, 91.— B. Of speech: orationis, Cic. Brut. 82, 284.— C.Poetic enthusiasm, rapture, inspiration: auditis? an me ludit amabilis Insania?Hor. C. 3, 4, 6.