MADNESS Copy link • MADNESSPROP., mens alienata (Liv.); mentis alienatio (Cels.; aberration of intellect): vesania (want of intellectual perception): insania (when reason has lost its poiver, insanity): vecordia (of those whose mind is disturbed by the prevalence of some one idea or set of ideas): amentia (want of sense, intellectual blindness; affectio animi lumine carens, Cic., Tusc., 3, 5, 10): dementia (irrational conduct): deliratio (want of rational or connected ideas; of idiots, or of the enfeebled mind in extreme old age): furor: mentis ad omnia caecitas (blind and senseless impulse): rabies (of animals, rarely of men): to drive to madness, ad insaniam adigere (Terentianus); in furorem vertere aliquem (Curt.): to be driven to madness, ad insaniam venire; in rabiem agi (Liv.), in insaniam incidere (Cic.). A piece of madness, insania; facinus insanum, monstrosum, mirum: an intolerable piece of madness, insaniae non tolerabiles (Cic.). Figuratively, rage, furor; rabies.