(Classical mythology) the hideous snake-haired monsters (usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals.
1 The last play of the trilogy, the ' Eumenides , ' has many singular features.
2 A celebrated temple was erected to the Eumenides at Athens, near the Areopagus.
3 The Parcæ shook their heads; even the Eumenides were silent.
4 The Eumenides are escorted from the scene in solemn procession.
5 From them sprung the Eumenides , pursuers and destroyers of men.
6 Let me now give you another passage from the " Eumenides " - or " Furies " - of Æschylus .
7 And the Eumenides there lying express pictorially this disparity.
8 The Eumenides , avenging deities, seized upon Orestes, and drove him frantic from land to land.
9 Schiller supposes that the spectacle just then going on was a solemn chorus of the Eumenides .
10 In the evening to the Greek play , - the " Eumenides " of Aeschylus,-whichwas wonderfully well done.
11 The novel opens with the return of killer, Eumenides , named for the Greek furies of vengeance.
12 There is a wind called Euroclydon: it would be one of the Eumenides ; only they are women.
13 Heretofore they have been the Erinnyes, or Furies; henceforth they shall be the Eumenides , or Gracious Goddesses.
14 Here is no need of the Eumenides , children of Night everlasting; for here is very Night herself.
15 This last canal is barely visible on our map, its commencement being indicated by the word Eumenides .
16 The last piece, " Eumenides , " has a distinct political purpose.
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