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/Quo pater audito, grauiter succensus in iram,/irruit in puerum, mente manuque furens.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Arma rapit superosque furens inpraelia poscit: quite mad or tending to madness.
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Testis est mihi conscientia, quod viderim matronam quandam hinc liberatam, quae frequentius ex iracundia demens, et impos animi dicenda tacenda loquebatur, adeo furens ut ligari cogeretur.
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Indignatione nimia furens, animique impotens, exiliit de lecto, furentem non capiebat aula, &c. 1737.
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'Caesar in arma furens nullas nisi sanguine fuso gaudet habere vias'; v. 242,
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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Notumque furens quid femina possitshe was injurd; she was revengeful; she was powerful.
Dedication Vergil 1909
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_Femina est_, though sometimes _furens_, oftener still
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889
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His mistress, who is not at first _femina furens_, but who possesses some feminine characteristics in a dangerous degree, as he might perhaps have found out earlier if he had been a different person, determines to make sure of it.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889
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_Hercules furens_, _Hippolytus_ and _Troades_ at once proclaim their origin, but the _Hercules Oetaeus_, _Oedipus Thyestes_, and _Agamemnon_, are probably based on a comparison of the treatment by the several Attic masters.
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879
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Bitiou seems an Egyptian literary complex, based on a popular set of tales illustrating furens quid femina possit, and illustrating the world - wide theory of the separable life, dragging in formulas from other
Modern Mythology Andrew Lang 1878
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