“Ira furor brevis eſt. animum rege ; qui niſi paret,
Imperat : hunc frenis, hunc tu compeſce catenâ.”
—Horace, Epistles, bk. 1.
“What is Anger? ’tis Madneſs in Perfection, tho’ of a ſhort Duration. Be Maſter of this Paſſion, it will either be your Tyrant or your Slave ; curb it with Bridles, keep it under with Chains.”
—Trans. Samuel Dunster, Horace’s Satires, Epiſtles and Art of Poetry, Done into Engliſh, with Notes, 2nd ed., London: D[aniel] Browne and J[ohn] Walthoe, 1712, 259.
“Anger is a ſhort Frenzy, curb thy Soul,
And check thy Rage, which muſt be rul’d, or rule :
Uſe all thy Art, with all thy Force reſtrain,
And take the ſtrongeſt Bit, and firmeſt Rein :”
—Trans. Thomas Creech, The Odes, Satyrs, and Epiſtles of Horace, 5th ed., London: Jacob Tonson, 1730, 276.
“Anger’s a ſhorter Frenzy : then ſubdue
Your Paſſion, or your Paſſion conquers You.
Let lordly Reaſon hold the guiding Reins,
And bind the Tyrant with coercive Chains.”
—Trans. Philip Francis, The Epiſtles and Art of Poetry of Horace: In Latin and Engliſh; with Critical Notes Collected from His Beſt Latin and French Commentators, vol. 4, 3rd ed., London: Andrew Millar, 1749, 29.