σεληνιάζομαι

English (LSJ)

Pass.,

   A to be moonstruck, i.e. epileptic, Ev.Matt.4.24, 17.15, Vett.Val.113.10.    2 to be sublunar, i.e. subject to change and decay, -ομένης τῆς φύσεως Zos.Alch.p.107 B., cf. Cat.Cod.Astr.8(3).146.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

σεληνιάζομαι: ἀποθ., προσβάλλομαι ὑπὸ τῆς σελήνης, καταλαμβάνομαι ὑπὸ σεληνισμοῦ ἢ ἐπιληψίας, Εὐαγγ. κ. Ματθ. δ΄, 24, ιζ΄, 15, πρβλ. κ. Μάρκ. θ΄, 17, κ. Λουκ. θ΄, 39· ἴδε Ὠριγέν. 3. 575-577, κατὰ τὸν Καισάριον ἐν Ζητ. 50, ὅστις φανερῶς ταυτίζει σεληνιασμὸν καὶ ἐπιληψίαν.

English (Strong)

middle voice or passive from a presumed derivative of σελήνη; to be moon-struck, i.e. crazy: be a lunatic.

English (Thayer)

(σελήνη); (literally, to be moon-struck (cf. lunatic); see Wetstein on BB. DD., under the word <TOPIC:Lunatic>); to be epileptic (epilepsy being supposed to return and increase with the increase of the moon): Manetho carm. 4,81,217; (Lucian, others); ecclesiastical writings.)