dementat

The word "dementat" is not to be met with, I believe, in the works of any real classical author.

Notes and Queries, Number 26, April 27, 1850 Various

Musica magis dementat quam vinum; music makes some men mad as a tiger; like Astolphos 'horn in Ariosto; or Mercury's golden wand in Homer, that made some wake, others sleep, it hath divers effects: and [3494] Theophrastus right well prophesied, that diseases were either procured by music, or mitigated.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

"Quem Deus vult perdere prius dementat" Whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

I Admit it - I'm Starting to Like Alastair Campbell 2007

And last of all, that which crucifies us most, is our own folly, madness (quos Jupiter perdit, dementat; by subtraction of his assisting grace God permits it) weakness, want of government, our facility and proneness in yielding to several lusts, in giving way to every passion and perturbation of the mind: by which means we metamorphose ourselves and degenerate into beasts.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

It is fey, and is used to designate the conduct of a man who rushes, as it were, upon destruction; and the old Romans used to say, quem deus vult perdere, prius dementat.

Ralph Rashleigh 2004

“Quos vult perdere dementat,” he said, meaning by quos the persons responsible for this appointment.

Anna Karenina 2003

-- To the illustrations of the saying "_Quem Deus vult perdere prius dementat_," which have been given, may be added the following from the _Fragments of

Notes and Queries, Number 50, October 12, 1850 Various

-- The correct reading is, "Quem Jupiter vult perdere, dementat prius."

Notes and Queries, Number 26, April 27, 1850 Various

When the mind is in disorder the course is not straight and even, but irregular and wavering, it is detected by its obliquity: it is by the winding of the course that you discover you are in the path of the serpent "_Quem Deus vult perdere prius dementat_," is

The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph Sandom, Alexander M'Rae, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte for A Conspiracy In the Court of King's Bench, Guildhall, on Wednesday the 8th, and Thursday the 9th of June, 1814 William Brodie Gurney

"Perdere quos vult hos dementat;" the source of which some of your contributors have endeavoured to ascertain.

Notes and Queries, Number 46, September 14, 1850 Various