insipientia

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Ὅστις γὰρ ἐν πολλοῖσιν ὡς ἐγὼ κακοῖς ζῇ, πῶς ὅδ' Οὐχὶ κατθανὼν κέρδος φέρει; → For one who lives amidst such evils as I do, how could it not be best to die?

Sophocles, Antigone, 464-5

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

insĭpĭentĭa: ae, f. insipiens,
I want of wisdom, senselessness, folly (class.): ita fit, ut sapientia sanitas sit animi, insipientia autem quasi insanitas quaedam, quae est insania eademque dementia, Cic. Tusc. 3, 5, 10; 3, 28, 68; Plaut. Am. prol. 36; id. Mil. 3, 3, 5; id. Poen. 5, 2, 130.

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

īnsĭpĭentĭa,¹⁶ æ, f. (insipiens), folie, sottise : Pl. Amph. 36 ; Mil. 877 || Cic. Tusc. 3, 10.