/ · 1894 Brewer’s · E · Eumenides [the good-tempered goddesses]
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A name given by the Greeks to the Furies, as it would have been ominous and bad policy to call them by their right name, Erinʹnyēs.
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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.
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