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Headword: *eu)meni/des
Adler number: epsilon,3581
Translated headword: Eumenides, Kindly Ones
Vetting Status: high
Translation:

Aeschylus in Eumenides, speaking of the trial of Orestes, says that Athena soothed the Furies so as to end their hostility to Orestes, and named them Eumenides. There were three: Alekto, Mega[i]ra, Tisiphone.

Greek Original:

*eu)meni/des: *ai)sxu/los *eu)meni/sin, ei)pw\n ta\ peri\ th\n kri/sin th\n *)ore/stou fhsi/n, w(s h( *)aqhna= e)pra/u+ne ta\s *)erinnu/as, w(/ste mh\ xalepw=s e)/xein pro\s to\n *)ore/sthn, *eu)meni/das au)ta\s w)no/masen. ei)si\ de\ trei=s, *)alhktw/, *me/gara, *tisifo/nh.

Notes:

Abridged from Harpokration (and Photius) s.v., commenting in the first instance on their brief (collective) mention in Demosthenes 23.66 (web address 1).
See also epsilon 3580; and cf. epsilon 2994, epsilon 2995.

Reference:

OCD(4) 535-6, s.v. Erinyes

Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: aetiology; ethics; law; mythology; religion; rhetoric; tragedy
Translated by: David Whitehead on 22 November 2000@08:02:33.
Vetted by:

Catharine Roth (cosmetics) on 22 July 2003@21:52:48.
David Whitehead (added notes and more keywords) on 23 July 2003@03:03:13.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 8 July 2011@05:28:59.
David Whitehead on 3 August 2014@08:47:52.
David Whitehead on 8 March 2016@08:04:02.
Catharine Roth (added a link) on 14 February 2018@02:23:04.

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