infatuation Copy link Outline 1. dēmentia2. caecĭtas mentis3. fŭror • infatuation: 1. dēmentia: it would be the height of i., summae d. esse, Caes. B. G. 4, 13 (also, dementis esse, Cic. Off. 1, 24, 83): v. folly. 2. caecĭtas mentis: Cic. (?) Dom. 40, 105. 3. fŭror: v. madness.
INFATUATION Copy link • INFATUATIONcaecitas mentis or animi (mental blinding): furor (from passion): sometimes stultitia (folly): dementia (madness). [Vid: FOLLY.] Such was his infatuation., tantus eum furor ceperat; eo vecordiae processerat (Sall., Jug., 5); processit in id furoris (Velleius, 2, 80).