fŭrĭa — Lewis & Short
fŭrĭa, ae, f., and, more commonly, fŭrĭae, ārum, f.furo,
plur.:I violent passion, rage, madness, fury.
I Appellatively (only poet. for furor or rabies):
unius ob noxam et furias Ajacis Oï_lei,Verg. A. 1, 41:
ubi concepit furias,i. e. became furious, id. ib. 4, 474:
tauri,Mart. 2, 43, 5:
canum,Grat. Cyneg. 392:
in furias agitantur equae,i. e. furious, ardent desire, Ov. A. A. 2, 478; Verg. G. 3, 244; Prop. 4 (5), 4, 68.
auri,the fierce greediness for gold, Sil. 2, 500:
ergo omnis furiis surrexit Etruria justis,in just fury, just wrath, Verg. A. 8, 494:
honestae (Sagunti),Stat. S. 4, 6, 84.—
Of things: tranare sonoras Torrentum furias,the wild raging, roaring, Claud. III. Cons. Hon. 45.—
II As a nom. prop.: Fŭrĭae, the three goddesses of vengeance (Allecto, Megaera, and Tisiphone), the Furies (syn.: Dirae, Eumenides).
A Prop.:
Furiae deae sunt speculatrices, credo, et vindices facinorum et scelerum,Cic. N. D. 3, 18, 46:
ut eos agitent insectenturque Furiae, non ardentibus taedis, sicut in fabulis sed angore conscientiae,id. Leg. 1, 14, 40; cf. id. Rosc. Am. 24, 66 sq.; id. Pis. 20, 46; Auct. ap. Quint. 9, 3, 47; Verg. A. 3, 331; Hor. S. 2, 3, 135; 1, 8, 45 al.—
B Transf., in gen., avenging spirits, tormenting spirits.
(a) Plur.:
itaque eos non ad perficiendum scelus sed ad luendas rei publicae poenas furiae quaedam incitaverunt,Cic. Sull. 27, 76:
Furiae Catilinae,id. Par. 4, 1, 27:
sceleratum vicum vocant, quo amens, agitantibus furiis sororis ac viri, Tullia per patris corpus carpentum egisse fertur,Liv. 1, 48, 7; cf. id. 1, 59 fin.; 40, 10, 1:
his muliebribus instinctus furiis Tarquinius circumire et prensare patres, etc.,urged on by this female tormenting spiril, this fury of a woman, id. 1, 47, 7.—
(b) Sing., applied to persons who are furious or who are plotting mischief, a fury.—So of Clodius:
illa furia ac pestis patriae,Cic. Sest. 14, 33;
of the same,id. ib. 17, 39; cf.
also: illa furia muliebrium religionum, qui non pluris fecerat Bonam Deam quam tres sorores,id. Fam. 1, 9, 15; id. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 4; Hor. S. 2, 3, 141:
hunc juvenem (i. e. Hannibalem) tamquam furiam facemque hujus belli odi ac detestor,Liv. 21, 10, 11.