The corpus record — Latin

vesanus

vesanus · adj

not of sound mind

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Where it lives

De Arte Poetica liber 1 · 3.24/10k
de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k
Pharsalia 13 · 2.55/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
Elegiae 5 · 1.98/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.8/10k
Medea 1 · 1.77/10k
In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Carmina 2 · 1.55/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
De Domo Sua Ad Pontifices 2 · 1.32/10k

Densest 12 of 38 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

vē-sānus — Lewis & Short

vē-sānus (vae-sān-), a, um, adj.,

I not of sound mind, mad, insane (mostly poet.).

I Lit.: remex, Cic. Div. 2, 55, 114: homo, id. Dom. 2, 3: tribunus plebis, id. ib. 21, 55: poëta, Hor. A. P. 455: stella vesani Leonis, fierce, raging, id. C. 3, 29, 19.—

B Impetuous: urbem cuidam Alexander donabat vesanus, Sen. Ben. 2, 16, 1: Caesaris agmen, Luc. 7, 496.—

II Transf., of inanim. and abstract things, fierce, wild, savage, furious, raging: vultus, Liv. 7, 33, 17: impetus, id. 9, 13, 3: manus, Prop. 2, 9, 10: vires, Ov. Am. 1, 7, 25: vesani murmura ponti, Prop. 1, 8, 5: flamma, Cat. 100, 7: fames, Verg. A. 9, 340: pontus, Manil. 5, 343: mero Regia, Luc. 8, 401.

In the wild

uesano Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 9 p13
vaesana Seneca, Medea 1
uesanam Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 3.1.p2
vesanus Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 5.527
vesane Claudian, In Rufinum 1.1.196
uaesanae Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 3.3e.2

6 of 74 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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