insipientia

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

insĭpĭentĭa, ae, f. [insipiens],

want of wisdom , senselessness , folly (class.): ita fit, ut sapientia sanitas sit animi, insipientia autem quasi insanitas quaedam, quae est insania eademque dementia, Cic. Tusc. 3, 5, 10; 3, 28, 68; Plaut. Am. prol. 36; id. Mil. 3, 3, 5; id. Poen. 5, 2, 130.

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