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anger/fury/ire/orge/rage/wrath Riess (2012), Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens, 35, 67, 76, 82, 85, 98, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 122, 132, 149, 255, 256, 257, 258, 259, 260, 286, 287, 288, 297, 300, 304, 320, 321, 322, 323, 324, 325, 326, 327, 328, 331, 333, 335, 336, 346, 364, 365, 389
erinyes/furies Riess (2012), Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens, 180, 201, 233
furies Augoustakis (2014), Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past, 211, 212
Culík-Baird (2022), Cicero and the Early Latin Poets, 111, 113, 115, 116
Duffalo (2006), The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate. 5, 8, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 45, 46, 47, 49, 51, 54, 137, 138, 140
Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 60, 77
Fletcher (2023), The Ass of the Gods: Apuleius' Golden Ass, the Onos Attributed to Lucian, and Graeco-Roman Metamorphosis Literature, 157
Giusti (2018), Disclosure and Discretion in Roman Astrology: Manilius and his Augustan Contemporaries, 144, 232, 243, 275
Jouanna (2012), Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen, 71, 72, 77
Luck (2006), Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts, 337
Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 43, 107, 108, 166, 196, 204, 206, 214
Naiden (2013), Smoke Signals for the Gods: Ancient Greek Sacrifice from the Archaic through Roman Periods, 55
Panoussi(2019), Brides, Mourners, Bacchae: Women's Rituals in Roman Literature, 132, 141, 145, 150, 152, 249, 250
Pillinger (2019), Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature, 48, 49, 61, 62, 100, 101, 124, 130
Roumpou (2023), Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature. 39, 149, 192
Shannon-Henderson (2019), Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s , 300
Trott (2019), Aristotle on the Matter of Form: ? Feminist Metaphysics of Generation, 124, 127, 128, 130
Verhagen (2022), Security and Credit in Roman Law: The Historical Evolution of Pignus and Hypotheca, 211, 212
furies, and justice Davies (2004), Rome's Religious History: Livy, Tacitus and Ammianus on their Gods, 277, 279
furies, cf. erinyes furniture Riess (2012), Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens, 66, 73, 74, 81, 123
furies, characters, tragic/mythical, erinyes Liapis and Petrides (2019), Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca, 75, 94, 254, 255, 260, 313, 315, 316, 343
furies, cicero, references to the Duffalo (2006), The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate. 5, 8, 31, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 45, 46, 47, 49, 51, 54, 137, 138, 139
furies, erinyes Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 73, 74, 254
furies, erinyes, eumenides Eidinow (2007), Oracles, Curses, and Risk Among the Ancient Greeks, 285, 302, 321, 341
furies, singing, music Pillinger (2019), Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature, 62, 73
fury Mackay (2022), Animal Encounters in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica, 90, 127, 190, 208, 216, 217, 221
fury, cf. anger gall, cf. bile gender Riess (2012), Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens, 43, 84, 86, 98, 261, 268, 270, 271, 272, 273, 289, 294, 329, 350, 365
fury, of clytemnestra Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 736
lyssa/fury Bednarek (2021), The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond, 153, 155, 167, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 177, 178, 179, 181, 182, 183, 184, 190

List of validated texts:
19 validated results for "fury"
1. None, None, nan (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • Cicero, references to the Furies • Furies • characters, tragic/mythical, Furies (Erinyes)

 Found in books: Duffalo (2006), The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate. 139; Liapis and Petrides (2019), Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca, 75; Trott (2019), Aristotle on the Matter of Form: ? Feminist Metaphysics of Generation, 127

2. Euripides, Orestes, 259 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • Cicero, references to the Furies • Furies • characters, tragic/mythical, Furies (Erinyes)

 Found in books: Duffalo (2006), The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate. 138; Liapis and Petrides (2019), Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca, 313

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259 ὁρᾷς γὰρ οὐδὲν ὧν δοκεῖς σάφ' εἰδέναι."" None
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259 Lie still, poor sufferer, on your couch; your eye sees nothing, you only imagine that you recognize them. Oreste'' None
3. None, None, nan (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • anger/fury/ire/orge/rage/wrath • characters, tragic/mythical, Furies (Erinyes)

 Found in books: Liapis and Petrides (2019), Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca, 75; Riess (2012), Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens, 256, 259

4. None, None, nan (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • Furies • anger/fury/ire/orge/rage/wrath

 Found in books: Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 107; Riess (2012), Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens, 297

5. None, None, nan (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • Furies • fury, cf. anger gall, cf. bile gender

 Found in books: Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 107; Riess (2012), Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens, 270, 294

6. None, None, nan (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • Erinyes (Eumenides; Furies) • anger/fury/ire/orge/rage/wrath • fury, cf. anger gall, cf. bile gender

 Found in books: Eidinow (2007), Oracles, Curses, and Risk Among the Ancient Greeks, 302; Riess (2012), Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens, 271, 286, 287

7. None, None, nan (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • Cicero, references to the Furies • Furies • furor/μανία

 Found in books: Duffalo (2006), The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate. 46; Gorain (2019), Language in the Confessions of Augustine, 169

8. None, None, nan (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • Cicero, references to the Furies • Furies

 Found in books: Culík-Baird (2022), Cicero and the Early Latin Poets, 115; Duffalo (2006), The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate. 5, 45, 137

9. None, None, nan (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • Cicero, references to the Furies • Furies

 Found in books: Culík-Baird (2022), Cicero and the Early Latin Poets, 111; Duffalo (2006), The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate. 5, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 137, 138

10. None, None, nan (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • furor • furor/μανία

 Found in books: Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 192; Gorain (2019), Language in the Confessions of Augustine, 208

11. None, None, nan (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • furor • furor, and erotic / sexual desire • furor, distinguished from insania • furor, in the course of the plague

 Found in books: Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 45, 48, 170; Kazantzidis (2021), Lucretius on Disease: The Poetics of Morbidity in "De rerum natura", 49, 52, 56, 67, 168; Keith and Myers (2023), Vergil and Elegy. 48, 49, 59

12. None, None, nan (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
 Tagged with subjects: • Aeschylus, furor • Furies, • furor

 Found in books: Luck (2006), Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts, 337; Pillinger (2019), Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature, 223

13. None, None, nan (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
 Tagged with subjects: • Furies

 Found in books: Augoustakis (2014), Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past, 211, 212; Verhagen (2022), Security and Credit in Roman Law: The Historical Evolution of Pignus and Hypotheca, 211, 212

14. None, None, nan (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
 Tagged with subjects: • Furies • characters, tragic/mythical, Furies (Erinyes)

 Found in books: Duffalo (2006), The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate. 140; Liapis and Petrides (2019), Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca, 316

15. None, None, nan (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)
 Tagged with subjects: • Erinyes/Furies • Furies,

 Found in books: Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 60; Riess (2012), Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens, 180

16. Demosthenes, Orations, 19.281
 Tagged with subjects: • Erinyes/Furies • Furies • anger/fury/ire/orge/rage/wrath

 Found in books: Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 43, 107; Riess (2012), Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens, 120, 233

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19.281 will you be content that all these men should have been subjected to the inexorable penalty of law; that they should find no succor in mercy or compassion, in weeping children bearing honored names, or in any other plea? And then, when you have in your power a son of Atrometus the dominie, and of Glaucothea, the fuglewoman of those bacchanalian routs for which another priestess According to Ulpian her name was Nino and her crime was mixing a love-potion. suffered death, will you release the son of such parents, a man who has never been of the slightest use to the commonwealth, neither he, nor his father, nor any member of his precious family?' ' None
17. Vergil, Aeneis, 1.349, 2.314-2.317, 4.68, 4.178, 4.300-4.301, 4.365-4.371, 4.373-4.380, 4.382-4.387, 4.393-4.396, 7.377, 7.385-7.400, 7.456-7.457, 8.219, 8.244, 8.299, 12.823-12.828, 12.830, 12.836, 12.841, 12.946-12.947
 Tagged with subjects: • Aeneas, and furor • Cicero, references to the Furies • Furies • furor • furor, amorous • furor/furere • furor/μανία • fury

 Found in books: Braund and Most (2004), Ancient Anger: Perspectives from Homer to Galen, 255; Cairns (1989), Virgil's Augustan Epic. 27, 39, 52, 70, 77, 82, 83, 84; Duffalo (2006), The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate. 137; Fabre-Serris et al. (2021), Identities, Ethnicities and Gender in Antiquity, 102; Farrell (2021), Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity, 161, 212, 285, 290; Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 48; Gorain (2019), Language in the Confessions of Augustine, 106; Keith and Myers (2023), Vergil and Elegy. 115; Panoussi(2019), Brides, Mourners, Bacchae: Women's Rituals in Roman Literature, 152, 249, 250

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1.349 impius ante aras, atque auri caecus amore,
2.314
Arma amens capio; nec sat rationis in armis, 2.315 sed glomerare manum bello et concurrere in arcem 2.316 cum sociis ardent animi; furor iraque mentem 2.317 praecipitant, pulchrumque mori succurrit in armis.
4.68
Uritur infelix Dido, totaque vagatur
4.178
Illam Terra parens, ira inritata deorum,
4.300
Saevit inops animi, totamque incensa per urbem 4.301 bacchatur, qualis commotis excita sacris
4.365
Nec tibi diva parens, generis nec Dardanus auctor, 4.366 perfide; sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens 4.367 Caucasus, Hyrcanaeque admorunt ubera tigres. 4.368 Nam quid dissimulo, aut quae me ad maiora reservo? 4.369 Num fletu ingemuit nostro? Num lumina flexit? 4.370 Num lacrimas victus dedit, aut miseratus amantem est?
4.373
Nusquam tuta fides. Eiectum litore, egentem 4.374 excepi, et regni demens in parte locavi; 4.375 amissam classem, socios a morte reduxi. 4.376 Heu furiis incensa feror! Nunc augur Apollo, 4.377 nunc Lyciae sortes, nunc et Iove missus ab ipso 4.378 interpres divom fert horrida iussa per auras. 4.379 Scilicet is Superis labor est, ea cura quietos 4.380 sollicitat. Neque te teneo, neque dicta refello.
4.382
Spero equidem mediis, si quid pia numina possunt, 4.383 supplicia hausurum scopulis, et nomine Dido 4.384 saepe vocaturum. Sequar atris ignibus absens, 4.385 et, cum frigida mors anima seduxerit artus, 4.386 omnibus umbra locis adero. Dabis, improbe, poenas. 4.387 Audiam et haec Manis veniet mihi fama sub imos.
4.393
At pius Aeneas, quamquam lenire dolentem 4.394 solando cupit et dictis avertere curas, 4.395 multa gemens magnoque animum labefactus amore, 4.396 iussa tamen divom exsequitur, classemque revisit.
7.377
immensam sine more furit lymphata per urbem.
7.385
Quin etiam in silvas, simulato numine Bacchi, 7.386 maius adorta nefas maioremque orsa furorem 7.387 evolat et natam frondosis montibus abdit, 7.388 quo thalamum eripiat Teucris taedasque moretur, 7.389 Euhoe Bacche, fremens, solum te virgine dignum 7.390 vociferans, etenim mollis tibi sumere thyrsos, 7.391 te lustrare choro, sacrum tibi pascere crinem. 7.392 Fama volat, furiisque accensas pectore matres 7.393 idem omnis simul ardor agit nova quaerere tecta: 7.394 deseruere domos, ventis dant colla comasque, 7.395 ast aliae tremulis ululatibus aethera complent, 7.396 pampineasque gerunt incinctae pellibus hastas; 7.397 ipsa inter medias flagrantem fervida pinum 7.398 sustinet ac natae Turnique canit hymenaeos, 7.399 sanguineam torquens aciem, torvumque repente 7.400 clamat: Io matres, audite, ubi quaeque, Latinae:
7.456
Sic effata facem iuveni coniecit et atro 7.457 lumine fumantis fixit sub pectore taedas.
8.219
Hic vero Alcidae furiis exarserat atro
8.244
infernas reseret sedes et regna recludat
8.299
arduus arma tenens; non te rationis egentem
12.823
ne vetus indigenas nomen mutare Latinos 12.824 neu Troas fieri iubeas Teucrosque vocari 12.825 aut vocem mutare viros aut vertere vestem. 12.826 Sit Latium, sint Albani per saecula reges, 12.827 sit Romana potens Itala virtute propago:
12.830
Es germana Iovis Saturnique altera proles:
12.836
subsident Teucri. Morem ritusque sacrorum
12.841
Adnuit his Iuno et mentem laetata retorsit.
12.946
exuviasque hausit, furiis accensus et ira 12.947 terribilis, Tune hinc spoliis indute meorum' ' None
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1.349 “Let Cytherea cast her fears away!
2.314
eized now on every heart. “ of his vast guilt 2.315 Laocoon,” they say, “receives reward; 2.316 for he with most abominable spear 2.317 did strike and violate that blessed wood.
4.68
how far may not our Punic fame extend
4.178
while Dido and her hero out of Troy
4.300
hoot forth blind fire to terrify the soul 4.301 with wild, unmeaning roar? O, Iook upon
4.365
or round tall crags where rove the swarming fish, ' "4.366 flies Iow along the waves: o'er-hovering so " "4.367 between the earth and skies, Cyllene's god " "4.368 flew downward from his mother's mountain-sire, " '4.369 parted the winds and skimmed the sandy merge 4.370 of Libya . When first his winged feet
4.373
and founding walls and towers; at his side 4.374 was girt a blade with yellow jaspers starred, 4.375 his mantle with the stain of Tyrian shell 4.376 flowed purple from his shoulder, broidered fair 4.377 by opulent Dido with fine threads of gold, 4.378 her gift of love; straightway the god began: 4.379 “Dost thou for lofty Carthage toil, to build ' "4.380 foundations strong? Dost thou, a wife's weak thrall, " 4.382 Forgot thy kingdom and thy task sublime? 4.383 From bright Olympus, I. He who commands 4.384 all gods, and by his sovran deity 4.385 moves earth and heaven—he it was who bade 4.386 me bear on winged winds his high decree. 4.387 What plan is thine? By what mad hope dost thou
4.393
Ascanius. It is his rightful due ' "4.394 in Italy o'er Roman lands to reign.” " "4.395 After such word Cyllene's winged god " "4.396 vanished, and e'er his accents died away, " 7.377 to mine forevermore (unhappy me!)
7.385
But nay! Though flung forth from their native land, ' "7.386 I o'er the waves, with enmity unstayed, " '7.387 dared give them chase, and on that exiled few 7.388 hurled the whole sea. I smote the sons of Troy ' "7.389 with ocean's power and heaven's. But what availed " "7.390 Syrtes, or Scylla, or Charybdis' waves? " '7.391 The Trojans are in Tiber ; and abide 7.392 within their prayed-for land delectable, 7.393 afe from the seas and me! Mars once had power 7.394 the monstrous Lapithae to slay; and Jove ' "7.395 to Dian's honor and revenge gave o'er " '7.396 the land of Calydon. What crime so foul 7.397 was wrought by Lapithae or Calydon? ' "7.398 But I, Jove's wife and Queen, who in my woes " '7.399 have ventured each bold stroke my power could find, 7.400 and every shift essayed,—behold me now
7.456
he might on her whole house confusion pour. 7.457 Betwixt her smooth breast and her robe it wound
8.219
and with a wide-eyed wonder I did view ' "
8.244
Then high-born pages, with the altar's priest, " 8.299 Swift to the black cave like a gale he flew,
12.823
in anguish, and the wailing echoed far 12.824 along the royal seat; from whence the tale 12.825 of sorrow through the peopled city flew; 12.826 hearts sank; Latinus rent his robes, appalled ' "12.827 to see his consort's doom, his falling throne; " 12.830 pursued a scattered few; but less his speed,
12.836
uch anguish? Or why rings from side to side
12.841
rein, steeds, and chariot, this answer made:
12.946
of Eryx, when the nodding oaks resound, 12.947 or sovereign Apennine that lifts in air ' ' None
18. Vergil, Georgics, 2.486, 4.322-4.325, 4.469-4.470, 4.484-4.491, 4.494-4.495, 4.502-4.505, 4.507-4.520, 4.523-4.527
 Tagged with subjects: • Furies • furor • furor, in the course of the plague

 Found in books: Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 45, 53, 55, 100, 138, 184, 191, 193; Kazantzidis (2021), Lucretius on Disease: The Poetics of Morbidity in "De rerum natura", 168; Keith and Myers (2023), Vergil and Elegy. 14; Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 196; Thorsen et al. (2021), Greek and Latin Love: The Poetic Connection, 55

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2.486 flumina amem silvasque inglorius. O ubi campi
4.322
ima tenes, quid me praeclara stirpe deorum, 4.323 si modo, quem perhibes, pater est Thymbraeus Apollo, 4.324 invisum fatis genuisti? aut quo tibi nostri 4.325 pulsus amor? quid me caelum sperare iubebas?
4.469
ingressus manesque adiit regemque tremendum 4.470 nesciaque humanis precibus mansuescere corda.
4.484
atque Ixionii vento rota constitit orbis. 4.485 Iamque pedem referens casus evaserat omnes; 4.486 redditaque Eurydice superas veniebat ad auras, 4.487 pone sequens, namque hanc dederat Proserpina legem, 4.488 cum subita incautum dementia cepit amantem, 4.489 ignoscenda quidem, scirent si ignoscere manes. 4.490 Restitit Eurydicenque suam iam luce sub ipsa 4.491 immemor heu! victusque animi respexit. Ibi omnis
4.494
Illa, “Quis et me,” inquit, “miseram et te perdidit, Orpheu, 4.495 quis tantus furor? En iterum crudelia retro
4.502
dicere, praeterea vidit, nec portitor Orci 4.503 amplius obiectam passus transire paludem. 4.504 Quid faceret? Quo se rapta bis coniuge ferret? 4.505 Quo fletu Manis, quae numina voce moveret?
4.507
Septem illum totos perhibent ex ordine menses 4.508 rupe sub aeria deserti ad Strymonis undam 4.509 flesse sibi et gelidis haec evolvisse sub antris 4.510 mulcentem tigres et agentem carmine quercus; 4.511 qualis populea maerens philomela sub umbra 4.512 amissos queritur fetus, quos durus arator 4.513 observans nido implumes detraxit; at illa 4.514 flet noctem ramoque sedens miserabile carmen 4.515 integrat et maestis late loca questibus implet. 4.516 Nulla Venus, non ulli animum flexere hymenaei. 4.517 Solus Hyperboreas glacies Tanaimque nivalem 4.518 arvaque Rhipaeis numquam viduata pruinis 4.519 lustrabat raptam Eurydicen atque inrita Ditis 4.520 dona querens; spretae Ciconum quo munere matres
4.523
Tum quoque marmorea caput a cervice revulsum 4.524 gurgite cum medio portans Oeagrius Hebrus 4.525 volveret, Eurydicen vox ipsa et frigida lingua 4.526 “ah miseram Eurydicen!” anima fugiente vocabat: 4.527 “Eurydicen” toto referebant flumine ripae.”'' None
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2.486 Grim masks of hollowed bark assume, invoke
4.322
Athwart the doorway hangs her swaying net. 4.323 The more impoverished they, the keenlier all 4.324 To mend the fallen fortunes of their race 4.325 Will nerve them, fill the cells up, tier on tier,
4.469
And echoing groves, he went, and, stunned by that 4.470 Stupendous whirl of waters, separate saw
4.484
With napkins of shorn pile, while others heap 4.485 The board with dainties, and set on afresh 4.486 The brimming goblets; with Panchaian fire 4.487 Upleap the altars; then the mother spake, 4.488 “Take beakers of Maconian wine,” she said, 4.489 “Pour we to Ocean.” Ocean, sire of all, 4.490 She worships, and the sister-nymphs who guard 4.491 The hundred forests and the hundred streams;
4.494
Armed with which omen she essayed to speak:' "4.495 “In Neptune's gulf Carpathian dwells a seer," 4.502 And have been, or which time hath yet to bring; 4.503 So willed it Neptune, whose portentous flocks,' "4.504 And loathly sea-calves 'neath the surge he feeds." '4.505 Him first, my son, behoves thee seize and bind
4.507
And grant a prosperous end. For save by force 4.508 No rede will he vouchsafe, nor shalt thou bend 4.509 His soul by praying; whom once made captive, ply 4.510 With rigorous force and fetters; against these 4.511 His wiles will break and spend themselves in vain. 4.512 I, when the sun has lit his noontide fires, 4.513 When the blades thirst, and cattle love the shade,' "4.514 Myself will guide thee to the old man's haunt," '4.515 Whither he hies him weary from the waves, 4.516 That thou mayst safelier steal upon his sleep. 4.517 But when thou hast gripped him fast with hand and gyve, 4.518 Then divers forms and bestial semblance 4.519 Shall mock thy grasp; for sudden he will change 4.520 To bristly boar, fell tigress, dragon scaled,
4.523
The fetters, or in showery drops anon 4.524 Dissolve and vanish. But the more he shift 4.525 His endless transformations, thou, my son, 4.526 More straitlier clench the clinging bands, until' "4.527 His body's shape return to that thou sawest,"' None
19. None, None, nan
 Tagged with subjects: • Furies • furor

 Found in books: Keith and Myers (2023), Vergil and Elegy. 281; Panoussi(2019), Brides, Mourners, Bacchae: Women's Rituals in Roman Literature, 150, 152




Please note: the results are produced through a computerized process which may frequently lead to errors, both in incorrect tagging and in other issues. Please use with caution.
Due to load times, full text fetching is currently attempted for validated results only.
Full texts for Hebrew Bible and rabbinic texts is kindly supplied by Sefaria; for Greek and Latin texts, by Perseus Scaife, for the Quran, by Tanzil.net

For a list of book indices included, see here.