dementia
ὥσπερ γὰρ ζώου τῶν ὄψεων ἀφαιρεθεισῶν ἀχρειοῦται τὸ ὅλον, οὕτως ἐξ ἱστορίας ἀναιρεθείσης τῆς ἀληθείας τὸ καταλειπόμενον αὐτῆς ἀνωφελὲς γίνεται διήγημα → for just as a living creature which has lost its eyesight is wholly incapacitated, so if history is stripped of her truth all that is left is but an idle tale | for, just as closed eyes make the rest of an animal useless, what is left from a history blind to the truth is just a pointless tale
Latin > English
dementia dementiae N F :: madness, insanity; derangement of the mind; distraction, folly
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
dēmentĭa: ae,
I f demens, the being out of one's mind; insanity, madness; folly (freq. and class.; for syn. cf.: amentia, furor, rabies, vecordia, insania, deliratio, vesania): animi affectionem lumine mentis carentem nominaverunt amentiam eandemque dementiam, Cic. Tusc. 3, 5, 10; Ter. Ad. 4, 7, 40; Lucr. 1, 705; Cic. Cat. 4, 10, 22; Nep. Pelop. 3, 2; Caes. B. G. 4, 13; Sall. C. 42, 2; Quint. 7, 3, 2; Tib. 1, 2, 11; Verg. E. 2, 69; id. A. 5, 465; 9, 601; Juv. 10, 233; Hor. Epod. 17, 45; Ov. M. 13, 225 al.—In plur., follies, Cic. Att. 9, 9 fin.>
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
dēmentĭa,¹⁰ æ, f. (demens), démence, folie, extravagance : Cic. Cat. 4, 22 ; Tusc. 3, 10 || pl., Att. 9, 9, 4.
Latin > German (Georges)
dēmentia, ae, f. (demens), das Nicht-recht-bei-Sinnen-Sein, die Unvernunft, der Wahnsinn, die Verrücktheit, das unsinnige (unvernünftige) Gebaren, die Narrheit, Komik., Cic. u.a.: frustra niti extremae dementiae est, Sall.: illud postremae dementiae est, cum etc., Apul.: dementiam sanare, Donat. Ter. Andr. 2, 1, 19. – summae dementiae est m. Infin., Caes. b. G. 4, 13, 2: Plur. eius dementias (Narrheiten) cave contemnas, Cic. ad Att. 9, 9, 4.
