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Might it not have been the hand of the Venetian girl, maddened by jealousy, which had taken the life of her rival, while she slept? Such a story would by no means be now told for the first time. Very far from it. Men had not now to learn furens quid foemina possit. Paolina was known to have left the city at that suspiciously strange hour of the morning.
James Bowyer, the 'Hercules furens' of the phlogistic sect, but else an incomparable teacher, used to translate, 'Nihil in intellectu quod non prius in sensu', first reciting the Latin words, and observing that they were the fundamental article of the Peripatetic school, "You must flog a boy, before you can make him understand;" or, "You must lay it in at the tail before you can get it into the head."
"If she be not very good we will burn her, my friend. Uritur infelix Dido, totaque videtur Urbe furens!" His eyes were cruel, and he licked his lips as he applied the quotation.
Now when you first came from your home in Boeotia, and performed in the Procne, and won the prize for your rendering of the Ajax Furens, composed by your namesake, there was not a man who did not know the name of Timotheus of Thebes; and in these days you have only to show yourself, and people flock together as birds do at the sight of an owl in daylight.
Pepys. Hakluyt praised his descriptions of natural phenomena as excelling those penned by Aristotle, Pliny, Theophrastus, and Columella. One of his poems, Pluto Furens, was dedicated to Alexander VI., whom he cordially detested and whose election to the papal chair he deplored.
ONUS AETNA GRAVIUS: a proverbial expression with an allusion to Enceladus, who, after the defeat of the Giants by Juppiter, was said to have been imprisoned under Mt. Aetna. Cf. Eurip. Hercules Furens, 637; also Longfellow's poem, Enceladus. HAUD SANE DIFFICILEM: 'surely far from difficult'; cf. 83 haud sane facile. QUIBUS: a dativus commodi, 'those for whom there is no aid in themselves'. Cf.
Hercules Furens and Orlando Furioso did more than cut down trees; they tore them up; but to no useful end. His power is often almost Miltonic; it is never Shakespearian; and his insistent earnestness would run the risk of fatiguing us were it not redeemed by his humour.
It seems he feared not Jupiter so much as Dido; for your lordship may observe that, as much intent as he was upon his voyage, yet he still delayed it, till the messenger was obliged to tell him plainly that if he weighed not anchor in the night the queen would be with him in the morning, notumque furens quid femina possit: she was injured, she was revengeful, she was powerful.
Hence comes a rare intensity, an immediacy of impression, a sense of nearness to the thing described, which will strike anyone who reads the messenger's speech in the Hercules Furens, or the scene where the identity of Oedipus is discovered, or indeed any great passage in Greek Drama.
Furens quid faemina possit, he had more particular reasons to apprehend the rage of a lady who had given so strong an instance how far she could carry her revenge. She had already sent a chairman to his lodgings with a positive command not to return without an answer to her letter.
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