fury Copy link Outline I. A mythological personage1. Fŭria (rare in sing.)2. Ĕrinnys, y̆os, f. (Gr. ἘριννὺςII. Violent rage1. fŭror2. răbies, em, e, f.3. saevĭtia • fury: I. A mythological personage: 1. Fŭria (rare in sing.): the F.s are goddesses that keep watch over crimes and avenge them, F. sunt deae speculatrices et vindices facinorum, Cic. N. D. 3, 18, 46: impelled by bad f.s, malis f. actus, Hor. S. 2, 3, 135. Fig.: of any embodiment of rage or infatuation: that f., and pest of his country, illa f. ac pestis patriae, Cic. Sext. 14, fin.: a f. and firebrand of war, f. faxque belli, Liv. 2. Ĕrinnys, y̆os, f. (Gr. Ἐριννὺς: poet.): the dismal f.s, atrae E., Ov. Her. 11, 103. Fig.: the common f. of Troy and of her own country (Helen), Trojae ac patriae communis E., Virg. Aen. 2, 573. II. Violent rage: 1. fŭror: v. rage. Fig.: the equinoctial f. of the sky, coeli f. aequinoctialis, Cat. 46, 2. 2. răbies, em, e, f.: the f. of fellow-citizens, i. e. civil war, r. civica, Hor.: the f. of the winds, r. ventorum, Ov.: v. rage. 3. saevĭtia: v. fierceness.
FURY Copy link • FURYrabies (violence, madness, whenever the passions rise to such a height as to deprive the individual of all consciousness or self-command): furor (rage; the state of the highest degree of excitement): saevitia (savage rage, depriving the individual of all self-control; of men and beasts): ira: iracundia (violent anger, rage): saeva vis alicujus rei (fearful power of anything; e.g., morbi). [Vid: RAGE.] To put anybody in a fury, [Vid: RAGE]: to be in a fury [Vid: “to become FURIOUS”]. Plural (Mythology) Furies, furiae: (☞ the name of “Eumenides,” “Erinnyes,” the poets borrowed from the Greek): the furies of a person (i. e., his avenging goddesses), furiae alicujus: to be haunted by them, furiis agitari, vexari: the furies do not leave anybody at rest anywhere, furiae nusquam consistere aliquem patiuntur: invoke the furies, that they may avenge your brother’s crime, furias fraternas concita. ☞ Furia (as deity).