ira, -ae, f., anger

ira, -ae, f., anger. Aeneid 1.4: saevae memorem Iunonis ob iram (on account of the unforgetting anger of savage Juno). cf. iracundia, great anger. Eng. irascible, easily provoked to anger or resentment.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, l. 297-299: ‘God’s name!’ shouted the hasty and somewhat irascible blacksmith;/‘Must we in all things look for the how, and the why, and the where-fore?/Daily injustice is done, and might is the right of the strongest!’