Anger
. Athenodoʹrus, the Stoic, told Augustus the best way to restrain unruly anger was to repeat the alphabet before giving way to it. (See Dander.)
“The sacred line he did but once repeat,
And laid the storm, and cooled the raging heat.”
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Entry taken from
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,
edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.