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āmentātus, a, um, Part. of amento.

āmentĭa, ae, f. [amens], the being out of one’s senses, beside one’s self, madness, insanity.

  1. I. Lit.: animi adfectionem lumine mentis carentem nominaverunt amentiam eandemque dementiam, Cic. Tusc. 3, 5, 10: Di monerint meliora atque amentiam averruncassint tuam, Pac. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 102 Müll., and in Paul. ex Fest. p. 373 Müll. (Trag. Rel. p. 90 Rib.): heu cor ira fervit caecum, amentiā rapior ferorque, Att. ap. Non. 503, 7 (Trag. Rel. p. 194 Rib.): Quor meam senectutem hujus sollicito amentiā, Ter. And. 5, 3, 16: Quae istast pravitas, Quaeve amentiast … ? id. Heaut. 5, 2, 21; id. Hec. 4, 4, 50 (not elsewhere in Ter.): flagrare cupiditate atque amentiā, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 34: amentiā atque audaciā praeditus, id. ib. 2, 2, 42; Ov. M. 5, 511: tanta vis amentiae verius quam amoris mentem turbaverat, Liv. 3, 47; 23, 9: Percutiat te Dominus amentiā, Vulg. Deut. 28, 28; ib. Zach. 12, 4.
  2. II. Meton.
    1. A. Folly, stupidity (cf. amens, II.): si quem amentia verset, Hor. S. 2, 3, 249.
    2. B. Malice, malignity (eccl. Lat.): propter multitudinem amentiae (tuae), Vulg. Os. 9, 7.

āmento, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [amentum].

  1. I. Lit., to furnish with a strap or thong; esp. of the javelin, to the middle of which a strap was fastened, so that it might be thrown with greater force (very rare; only twice in Cic.): hastae amentatae, Cic. Brut. 78, 271.
    Trop., of discourse: amentatae hastae (i. e. apta et parata argumenta), Cic. de Or. 1, 57, 242 (so Juv. sagittae and jaculator, q. v.).
    Hence,
  2. II. Transf., poet., to hurl or dart the javelin by means of a thong: cum jaculum parvā Libysamentavit habenā, * Luc. 6, 221.
    And of the wind, which gives an impetus to motion, as a thong to the dart: amentante Noto, Sil. 14, 422.

āmentum, i, n. [ἅμμα, ἅπτω; v. apo], a strap or thong, esp. upon missile weapons, by means of which they were thrown with greater force (cf. amento): amenta, quibus, ut mitti possint, vinciuntur jacula sive solearum lora, Paul. ex Fest. p. 12 Müll.: epistola ad amentum deligata, Caes. B. G. 5, 48 Herz.: inserit amento digitos, Ov. M. 12, 321: amenta torquent, Verg. A. 9, 665: umor jaculorum amenta emollierat, Liv. 37, 41 al.
Rarely, a shoe-string: soleae sine amento, Plin. 34, 6, 14, § 31.