Homer relates an episode in the Trojan War that reveals the tragic consequences of the wrath of Achilles.

The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.[…]Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?

[…] butte remembre howe by thy cursed synnes thou haste offended and wrathed thy lorde god.

Of ire yͤ whiche is agayne god. […] A man wratheth hym ayenst god for many thynges, pryncypally for the flagellacions, aduersytees, fortunes, sykenesses, & mortalytees, losses, punycyons, famyne, warre & yll tyme.

And than the bysshop sayd vnto the clerke, thou hast wrathed me, but yf thou wylte be sory thou shalte haue my loue as thou haddest before, & I shall gyue the benefyce yͭ I haue promysed to gyue the, sholde not he be anone sory of that I byleue that yes.

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