The corpus record — Latin

deliratio

deliratio · f

giddiness, silliness, folly, dotage, madness

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Where it lives

De Senectute 1 · 1.21/10k
De Divinatione 1 · 0.36/10k
Letters 1 · 0.15/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

dēlīrātĭo — Lewis & Short

dēlīrātĭo, ōnis, f.id., originally, a going out of the furrow, in ploughing; hence, trop.,

I giddiness, silliness, folly, dotage, madness (very rare): quod vocant lirare, operiente semina, unde primum appellata deliratio est, Plin. 18, 20, 49, § 180: ista senilis stultitia, quae deliratio appellari solet, Cic. de Sen. 11, 36: o delirationem incredibilem! non enim omnis error stultitia est dicenda, id. Div. 2, 43: aliena, Plin. Ep. 6, 15, 4.

Where it came from

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