(adjective) : fānātĭcus, a, um, 1. fanum.
* Pertaining to a temple: PECVNIA, Inscr. Veron. ap. Bull. Dell' Inst. 1836, p. 141; cf. Borghesi, ib.
* Inspired by a divinity, enthusiastic.
* Lit.: ut fanaticus, oestro Percussus, Bellona, tuo,Juv. 4, 123; so cf the priests of Bellona,Inscr. Orell. 2316 sq.: jam subeuntibus armatis muros fanatici Galli ... occurrunt,Liv. 37, 9, 9; of the priests of Cybele,Juv. 2, 112; Prud. στεφ. 10, 1061, cf. also: Galli vaticinantes fanatico carmine,Liv. 38, 18, 9: si servus inter fanaticos non semper caput jactaret, etc. (shortly after: circa fana bacchatus),Dig. 21, 1, 1, § 9: fanatica dicitur arbor fulmine icta, Paul. ex Fest. p. 92, 19 Müll.
* Transf., frantic, furious, mad: isti philosophi superstitiosi et paene fanatici,Cic. Div. 2, 57, 118: cursus,Liv. 4, 33, 2: jactatio corporis,id. 39, 13, 12: error,Hor. A. P. 454: furor,Flor. 3, 19, 4 et saep.: jactare id (caput) et comas excutientem rotare, fanaticum est,Quint. 11, 3, 71.—* Adv.: fānātĭce, franticly, madly: absonis ululatibus constrepentes fanatice pervolant,App. M. 8, p. 214, 14.

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