The corpus record — Latin

delirus

delirus · adj

silly, doting, crazy

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Where it lives

Satyrarum libri 2 · 1.41/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k
De Divinatione 1 · 0.36/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
De Oratore 1 · 0.17/10k

What it meant

dēlīrus — Lewis & Short

dēlīrus, a, um, adj.deliro, no. II.,

I silly, doting, crazy (class.): dementit deliraque fatur, Lucr. 3, 464: delira furiosaque, id. 2, 985; with amens, Hor. S. 2, 3, 107: senex, Cic. de Or. 2, 18, 75; Hor. S. 2, 5, 71: anus, Cic. Tusc. 1, 21, 48; id. Div. 2, 68, 141: mater, Hor. S. 2, 3, 293: scriptor, id. Ep. 2, 2, 126 et saep.

In the wild

deliros Cicero, De Oratore 2.75
delirumque Apuleius, Metamorphoses 8.25
deliram Cicero, De Divinatione 2.141
delirus Horace, Epistulae 2.2.126
delirum Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 1.698
delirum Horace, Satyrarum libri 2.5.71

6 of 10 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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