insensible Copy link Outline I. To bodily affectionsII. To emotion1. lentus2. dūrus • insensible: I. To bodily affections: (?) torpĭdus (strictly, benumbed): Aus. Id. 10, 264. So, to become i., torpescere (v. benumbed); obtorpescere, Plin. 9, 42, 67: to be quite i., omni sensu carere: v. sensation. II. To emotion: 1. lentus: v. indifferent. 2. dūrus: cf. Cic. Am. 13, 48, neque enim sunt audiendi, qui virtutem duram et quasi ferream quandam esse volunt. Phr.: if one be i. (to pleasure and pain), motu animi sublato, Cic. Am. l. c.: to become i. to anything, obdurescere ad aliquid, Cic. (v. to harden, B.); obtorpescere (absol.), Liv. 32, 20: poet. in Cic. Tusc. 3, 28.