Note 12 — Chapter VI · Diabolic Possession and Modern Spiritism
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Quid esset illi morbi, dixeras? Narra, senex. Num laruatus, aut cerritus? fac sciam.
Menæchmei. V. I, 2. Apuleuis has laruans = a madman: “hunc [pulcherrimam Mercurii imaginem] denique qui laruam putat, ipse est laruans.” (Laruatus is a poorer reading in this passage.) Cerritus, a rare word, is contracted from cerebritus (cerebrum), and not connected with Ceres, as was formerly suggested. Cf. Horace, Sermonum, II, iii. 278.