DISTRACTED Copy link • DISTRACTED*aliena agens (doing or carrying on something else): *aliena cogitans (thinking of something else): varietate et dissimilitudine rerum diductus (having one’s attention divided by a variety of dissimilar objects; Vid: Cic., De Invent., 2, 36, 109): negotiis distentus, districtus (by business): in plura studia distractus (by pursuits, after Cic., De Or., 1, 59, 250). To be distracted., *aliena agere; *aliena cogitare (with the distinction explained above); occupationibus distentum esse; a negotiis districtum esse: to answer in a distracted manner, *aliena respondere: to speak, etc., aliena loqui. Frantic, mente captus, or alienatus; vesanus; insanus; vecors; delirus [SYN. in MAD]: to be distracted, mente captum or alienatum esse; insanire; delirare: to make anybody quite distracted, in insaniam adigere aliquem. Vid: To MADDEN.