The corpus record — Latin

vesania

vesania · f

madness

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Where it lives

Hamartigenia 2 · 3.13/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
Ad Nationes 1 · 0.67/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Metamorphoses 3 · 0.56/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1 · 0.38/10k
Res Gestae 3 · 0.24/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 1 · 0.14/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

vēsānĭa — Lewis & Short

vēsānĭa (vaesā-), ae, f.vesanus,

I madness, insanity (very rare): extimui, ne vos ageret vesania discors, Hor. S. 2, 3, 174: simulata (Ulixis), Plin. 35, 11, 40, § 129: formidabatur flagrans vesania manus, Amm. 14, 2, 15.

In the wild

uesania Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 2.5.p5
vesania Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 20.7.8
vesania Prudentius, Hamartigenia 1.251
vesania Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 31.5.13
vesania Apuleius, Metamorphoses 10.4
vesaniae Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 6.35.1

6 of 15 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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