Eumenides
(used with a plural verb)Classical Mythology. a euphemistic name for the Furies, meaning “the Kindly Ones.”
(italics)(used with a singular verb) a tragedy (485 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
- Compare Oresteia.
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How to use Eumenides in a sentence
There is a savage ritual of purification from blood shed by a homicide (compare Eumenides, line 273).
Homer and His Age | Andrew LangQuin dir Eumenides monstraque Tartari His longe duce te finibus exulant.
Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects | Giorgio VasariThe witches are not, it is true, divine Eumenides, and are not intended to be; they are ignoble and vulgar instruments of hell.
Since the "Eumenides" of Æschylus nothing so grand and terrible has ever been written.
When they came to Orestes and the Eumenides, Colin held out the drawing at arm's length for a moment lovingly.
Babylon, Volume 2 (of 3) | Grant Allen
British Dictionary definitions for Eumenides
/ (juːˈmɛnɪˌdiːz) /
another name for the Furies, used by the Greeks as a euphemism
Origin of Eumenides
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