Insanus, Horat. Violentus. Ouid. Iracundus. Ouid. Leo marinus ex cancrorum genere, Plin. A lopster. Leo, signum cæleste. Plin. Stella vesani leonis. Horat. Æstiuus leo. Claud.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
insānĭo, īvi and ĭi, ītum (imperf.: insanibat, Ter. Phorm. 4, 3, 37), 4, v. n. [insanus], to be of unsound mind (syn.: furo, deliro, desipio). I.Lit.A. As a medic. t. t., to be mad, insane, of men, Cels. 3, 18, 66; 2, 7, 69 al.; of animals, Plin. 27, 11, 76, 101.—B.To be senseless, without reason, mad, insane: insanire ex amore, Plaut. Merc. 2, 2, 53: homo insanibat (for insaniebat), Ter. Phorm. 4, 3, 37: usque eo est commotus, ut insanire omnibus ac furere videretur, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 18, 39: insanire tibi videris, quod, etc., id. Fam. 9, 21, 1: nisi ego insanio, id. Att. 7, 10: ex injuria, Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 43; Liv. 7, 39: cum ratione, Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 18: certa ratione modoque, Hor. S. 2, 3, 271. — II.Transf., to act like a madman, to rage, rave: quid opus fuit hoc, hospes, sumptu tanto, nostra gratia? Insanivisti hercle, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 160: amavi equidem olim in adulescentia: Verum ad hoc exemplum numquam ut nunc insanio, id. Merc. 2, 1, 40: insanire libet quoniam tibi, Verg. E. 3, 36: manu, i. e.
in battle
, Stat. Th. 3, 668.— Of speech; dicendi genus. quod ... specie libertatis insanit, Quint. 12, 10, 73.—Of a rage for building, Auct. Her. 4, 50, 63.—(b). With acc.: errorem. Hor. S. 2, 3, 63: sollemnia, id. Ep. 1, 1, 101: amores alicujus,
to be madly in love with one
, Prop. 2, 34, 25 (3, 32, 25 M.): hilarem insaniam insanire, Sen. Vit. Beat. 12. —(g). With in and acc.: in libertinas, Hor. S. 1, 2, 49.— (d). With abl.: qua me stultitia insanire putas?Hor. S. 2, 3, 302.—(e) Pass. impers.: insanitur a patre, Sen. Contr. 2, 9.
in-sānus, a, um, adj., unsound in mind.I.Lit., mad, insane (syn.: furiosus, fanaticus): quod idem contigit insanis, Cic. Ac. 2, 17, 52: si fecisset Juno maritum insanum, Juv. 6, 620. — II.Transf., that acts like a madman, raging, raving, foolish, frantic.A. Ex stultis insanos facere, Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 23: acrior et insanior cupiditas, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 18, 39: insanissima concio, id. Mil. 17, 45: homo insanissimus, id. Rosc. Am. 12, 33: uter est insanior horum?Hor. S. 2, 3, 102.—2.Transf., of inanim. and abstr. things: caedis insana cupido, Verg. A. 9, 760: amor duri Martis, id. E. 10, 44: insano verba tonare foro, i. e.
where there is a great bustle
, Prop. 4 (5), 1, 134: omnis et insana semita nocte sonat, i. e.
of women raving about
, id. 4 (5), 8, 60: insani enses, Calp. Ecl. 1, 59: fluctus, Verg. E. 9, 43: venti, Tib. 2, 4, 9: vires Austri, Ov. M. 12, 510: insana Caprae sidera, Hor. C. 3, 7, 6. — B.That causes madness (cf. "The insane root, that takes the reason prisoner," Shaks. Macb. 1, 3): laurum insanam vocant, quoniam si quid ex ea decerptum inferatur navibus, jurgia fiunt, donec abiciatur, Plin. 16, 44, 89, 239: herba,