The corpus record — Latin

furio2

furio2 · v. a

to drive mad

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Where it lives

Cupido cruciatur 1 · 13.57/10k
Phoenissae 4 · 9.78/10k
Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
Agamemnon 3 · 5.39/10k
Medea 3 · 5.3/10k
De Spectaculis 3 · 4.71/10k
In P. Vatinium testem interrogatio 2 · 4.45/10k
Thebais 24 · 3.84/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
Octavia 2 · 3.82/10k
Argonautica 13 · 3.5/10k
Oedipus 2 · 3.37/10k

Densest 12 of 62 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. fŭrĭo — Lewis & Short

fŭrĭo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.furiae,

I to drive mad, to madden, enrage, infuriate (poet.): flagrans amor et libido, Quae solet matres furiare equorum, Hor. C. 1, 25, 14: pubem, Sil. 14, 280: matres armatas (i. e. Bacchantes), Stat. Th. 11, 488: mentes in iram, Sil. 17, 294.—Hence, P. a.: fŭrĭā-tus, a, um, enraged, maddened (syn. v. furialis): furiata mens, Verg. A. 2, 407; 588: mentes malis incursibus furiatae, Lact. 4, 27, 2: sacerdos, Stat. Th. 2, 21: furiata juventus, Sil. 7, 617: furiati ignes (amoris), i. e. fierce, wild, Ov. F. 2, 761 (al. furiales); cf. Sil. 13, 209.

2. fŭrĭo — Lewis & Short

fŭrĭo, īre, v. n.id.,

I to be mad, to rage (late Lat. for furere): ut furiat, Sid. Carm. 22, 94.

In the wild

furit Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 2.368
furias Claudian, Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1.46
furit Propertius, Elegiae 3.22.28
furiata Statius, Thebais 2.21
furia Cicero, Pro P. Sestio 33.p1
furit Martial, Epigrammata 8.61.1

6 of 202 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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