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|lshtext=<b>fūror</b>: ātus, 1,<br /><b>I</b> v. dep. a. ([[act]]. inf. furasse, Fulg. Myth. 2, 6; [[sup]]. furatum, Plaut. Rud. 1, 2, 23; id. Trin. 4, 2, 22: furatus, in [[pass]]. signif., App. M. 10, p. 220) [[fur]], to [[steal]], [[purloin]], [[pilfer]] (syn.: [[latrocinor]], [[clepo]], [[rapio]]).<br /><b>I</b> Lit. ([[class]].): solet haec, quae rapuit et furatus est dicere se emisse, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 22, § 60: furatur aliquid aut eripit, id. Off. 2, 11, 40; id. N. D. 2, 63, 157: pecuniam ex templo, Quint. 3, 6, 41; Suet. Caes. 54.—Absol.: ad furandum venire, Plaut. Ps. 3, 2, 61; so of pillaging, [[military]] raids: [[ille]] robore [[exercitus]] inpar, furandi [[melior]], Tac. A. 3, 74 init.; of [[literary]] [[theft]]: ut [[iste]] in furando manibus suis uteretur, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 15, § 33: si ego tuum (librum) [[ante]] legissem, furatum me abs te esse diceres, id. Att. 2, 1, 1; cf. Poët. ap. Quint. 8, 3, 29.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf., in gen., to [[take]] [[away]] by [[stealth]], [[remove]] [[secretly]], to [[withdraw]]: [[pone]] [[caput]], fessosque oculos furare labori, Verg. A. 5, 845: membra, Sil. 10, 74: [[sese]], id. 14, 561: [[vultus]] veste, i. e. to [[hide]], Sen. Agam. 914: non [[enim]] furatus esse civitatem, non [[genus]] suum ementitus dicitur, Cic. Balb. 2, 5: speciem furabor Iacchi, [[will]] [[represent]], [[personate]], Prop. 4 (5), 2, 31: audiendi facultatem, to [[obtain]] by [[stealth]], Amm. 14, 11, 15.<br /><b>fŭror</b>: ōris, m. [[furo]],<br /><b>I</b> a [[raging]], [[raving]] (in [[sickness]] or [[violent]] [[passion]]), [[rage]], [[madness]], [[fury]].<br /><b>I</b> Prop.: hanc insaniam (μανίαν), quae juncta stultitiae patet latius, a furore disjungimus... Quem nos furorem, μελαγχολίαν [[illi]] ([[Graeci]]) vocant ... Qui ita [[sit]] [[affectus]], eum dominum esse rerum suarum vetant [[duodecim]] tabulae. Itaque non est [[scriptum]]: Si INSANVS, sed: SI FVRIOSVS ESCIT. Stultitiam [[enim]] censuerunt insaniam, constantiā, id est sanitate vacantem ... furorem [[autem]] esse rati sunt mentis ad omnia caecitatem: [[quod]] cum majus esse videatur [[quam]] [[insania]], [[tamen]] ejusmodi est, ut [[furor]] in sapientem cadere possit, non possit [[insania]], Cic. Tusc. 3, 5, 11; id. Ac. 2, 27, 88: ira [[furor]] [[brevis]] est, Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 62; cf.: [[fere]] ira et [[concitatio]] furori sunt similia, Quint. 7, 4, 31: hic si mentis esset suae, [[nisi]] poenas patriae furore [[atque]] [[insania]] penderet, Cic. Pis. 21, 50; cf.: furore [[atque]] amentiā [[impulsus]], Caes. B. G. 1, 40, 4; cf. id. ib. 7, 42: Catilinae, Sall. C. 24, 2: versatur mihi [[ante]] oculos [[aspectus]] Cethegi et [[furor]] in vestra caede bacchantis, Cic. Cat. 4, 6, 11: caeci furore, Liv. 28, 22, 14; cf. Cat. 64, 197: [[rabidus]], id. 63, 38: [[caecus]], Hor. Epod. 7, 13: nec se comitem illius furoris, sed ducem praebuit, Cic. Lael. 11, 37; cf. id. Rep. 1, 28 fin.: si [[decima]] [[legio]] ad eundem furorem redierit, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 11, 2; so of [[political]] [[excitement]], Caes. B. G. 2, 3, 5; Liv. 2, 29, 11; 25, 4, 5; 28, 25, 12; Hor. C. 4, 15, 17; of the [[fierce]] [[passion]] of [[love]], Prop. 1, 13, 20; Verg. A. 4, 101; Ov. H. 9, 145.—In <[[number]] opt="n">plur.</[[number]]>: [[mille]] puellarum, puerorum [[mille]] furores, Hor. S. 2, 3, 325; of the [[inspired]] [[frenzy]] of prophets and poets (as translation of the Gr. [[μανία]]>): ea ([[praesagitio]]) si exarsit acrius, [[furor]] appellatur, cum a corpore [[animus]] [[abstractus]] [[divino]] instinctu concitatur, Cic. Div. 1, 31, 66: negat [[sine]] furore [[Democritus]] quemquam poëtam magnum esse posse, id. ib. 1, 37, 88: [[ille]] [[furor]] (Cassandrae) patriae fuit [[utilis]], Prop. 3, 13 (4, 12), 65.—In <[[number]] opt="n">plur.</[[number]]>: fatidicos concepit mente furores, Ov. M. 2, 640: ad hunc impendiorum furorem, Suet. Ner. 31.—Prov.: [[furor]] [[fit]] laesa saepius [[patientia]], Pub. Syr. 178 Rib.—Poet. also in a [[good]] [[sense]]: vidi animos, mortesque virŭm, decorisque furorem, [[vehement]] [[desire]], Sil. 2, 324.—In <[[number]] opt="n">plur.</[[number]]>: nec [[tamen]] incautos laudum exhorresce furores, Sil. 3, 146.—Poet., of things: caeli [[furor]] [[aequinoctialis]], the [[raging]] storms, Cat. 46, 2.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Furor est, it is [[madness]] or [[folly]]; [[with]] inf. ([[poet]]. and in [[post]]-Aug. [[prose]]): [[quis]] [[furor]] est, [[census]] corpore ferre suo? Ov. A. A. 3, 172: [[furor]] est, mensuram ejus (mundi) [[animo]] quosdam agitasse [[atque]] prodere ausos ... [[furor]] est, [[profecto]] [[furor]], egredi ex eo, etc., Plin. 2, 1, 1, § 3: magno [[furor]] (leonis) est in [[sanguine]] mergi, [[raging]] [[desire]], Stat. Th. 8, 596: simplexne [[furor]] (est) sestertia [[centum]] perdere et, etc., is it not [[worse]] [[than]] [[folly]], Juv. 1, 92.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf., the [[cause]] of [[wrath]] ([[poet]].): non ita saeva ira mea ut [[tibi]] sim [[merito]] [[semper]] [[furor]], Prop. 1, 18, 15.—<br /><b>III</b> Fŭror, personified, Verg. A. 1, 294; cf. v. 348; as a [[deity]], the [[companion]] of [[Mars]], Sil. 4, 327; Stat. Th. 3, 424; 7, 52; cf. Petr. S. 124.