Ira Brevis Furor

Here is another distich by John Owen, with an English translation by Thomas Harvey, 5.89.

Ira Brevis Furor
Sit brevis ira licet, non expedit esse furorem;
At, quoniam furor est, expedit esse brevem.

Thou writh be short, ’tis not for fury fit:
If furious, ’tis fit to shorten it.

The vocabulary is keyed to the DCC Latin Vocabulary list. There are two words in this poem that are not on the DCC list:

expediō, expedīre: be expedient
licet: although, granted that

at: but, but yet
brevis -e: short, shallow, brief; adv. breviter
furor -ōris m.: rage, fury
īra irae f.: wrath, anger
nōn: not
quoniam: since, seeing that
sum, esse, fuī: be, exist

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