Lympha, Aqua dicitur Latinis. Col. Water.Fluuialis lympha.Virg.Water of the ryuer.Fugax lympha trepidat obliquo riuo. Hor. Gelida lympha.Ouid. Leuis. Hor. Liquidæ lymphæ.Ouid.Loquaces lymphæ saxis desiliunt. Hora. Lucentis lymphæ stagnum.Ouid.A poole of cleere water.Manantes lymphæ. Hor. Running water.Puteales. Lucret. Sobria lympha mista mero. Tibul. Vulnera lymphis abluere.Virg.Dare lymphas manibus. Vir. To give water to wash handes.Copia lymphæ fioit sitim. Hor. Hausitde gurgite lymphas.Virg.Oia manúsque lauimus lympha. Hor. Restinguere pocula lympha. Hor. Vulnera siccare lymphis.Virg.
Lympho, lymphas, lymphâre. Valer. Flac. To trouble to make madde.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
lympha, ae, f. [nu/mfh], water; esp. clear river or spring water (poet.): lymphae puteales, Lucr. 6, 1178: fluviali spargere lympha, Verg. A. 4, 635; Ov. M. 2, 459: vulnera lymphis abluere, id. ib. 13, 531.— Also, the water in dropsical persons: lympha intercus, Ser. Samm. 27, 501.—II. Personified: Lympha. A.A rural deity, the goddess of water, Varr. R. R. 1, 1, 6.—B. Lymphae, i. q. Nymphae, Hor. S. 1, 5, 97; Inscr. Orell. 1639.
lympho, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n. [lympha]. I.To water, dilute with water: admixto vino lymphato, id est, aqua temperato, Cael. Aur. Tard. 4, 3, 68.—II.To drive out of one's senses, to distract with fear, to make mad: urbem, Val. Fl. 3, 47: urbes incursibus, Stat. Th. 7, 113: hac herba pota lymphari homines, Plin. 24, 17, 102, 164. —As neutr.: lymphantes animi,
driven crazy, mad
, Plin. 27, 12, 83, 107.—Hence, lymphātus, a, um, P. a., distracted, crazy, beside one's self, mad: exercitum pavor invasit: quippe lymphati trepidare coeperunt, Curt. 4, 12, 14: lymphati et attoniti, Liv. 7, 17, 3: repente lymphati destrictis gladiis invadunt, Tac. A. 1, 32: lymphatis caeco pavore animis, id. H. 1, 82: sine more furit lymphata per urbem, Verg. A. 7, 377: pectora, Ov. M. 11, 3: mens, Hor. C. 1, 37, 14: urbs, Stat. Th. 10, 557: lymphato cursu ruere, Sil. 1, 459.