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Definition of Eumenides

1. Noun. (classical mythology) the hideous snake-haired monsters (usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals.

Definition of Eumenides

1. n. pl. A euphemistic name for the Furies of Erinyes.

Medical Definition of Eumenides

1. A euphemistic name for the Furies of Erinyes. Origin: L, from Gr. Lit, gracious goddesses. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Eumenides

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Mythology of All Races by John Arnott MacCulloch, Louis Herbert Gray, George Foot Moore, Alice Werner (1916)
"My mother, dead grey stone, to cast on me And crush." 3 eumenides ... "Revered Goddesses," and at Kolonos, the eumenides, "Benevolent Ones," but in time ..."

2. The Dream in Homer and Greek Tragedy by William Stuart Messer (1918)
"... generally supposed to be the soul of a dead man, which sucks by night the blood of living persons.284 In the eumenides Apollo distinctly speaks of the ..."

3. Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion by Jane Ellen Harrison (1903)
"About the figures of the eumenides at Argos, ... were quite other than the eumenides,' and we may be sure that the humour of the situation attempted would ..."

4. Greek and Roman [mythology] by William Sherwood Fox (1916)
"My mother, dead grey stone, to cast on me And crush." » eumenides ... "Revered Goddesses," and at Kolonos, the eumenides, "Benevolent Ones," but in time ..."

5. Russell's Magazine by Paul Hamilton Payne (1858)
"You shall have good cause to remember eumenides, who hath for thy safety forsaken ... Thou art that Endymion, and I eumenides: Wilt thou not yet call me to ..."

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