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“Alas, inflamed by furies, am I raging!” (Translations vary: Dido has multiple grievances against Aeneas, and Dido’s passion may be inflamed by the goddesses of vengeance.)
the Furies, or Erinyes, mythological goddesses of vengeance
“furia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“furia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
furia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
furia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
to be tormented by remorse: (mens scelerum furiis agitatur)
the Furies harass and torment some one: Furiae agitant et vexant aliquem