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ε3581ΕὐμενίδεςEumenides, Kindly OnesAeschylus 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.Matched in translationhighshort
ε3580ΕὐμενίδεςEumenides… of Orestes. For that is when they were first called Eumenides, because they became well-disposed [eumeneis] to him, who was chosen to prevail in the presence of the Athenians, and who brought as a …Matched in translationhighmedium
α1053Ἄλλα δ' ἀλλαχοῦ καλάdifferent (names) are good in different places.Inasmuch as different men call the Eumenides by different names. So other names are judged good by other people, but we prefer to call them Eumenides ["Favoring Ones"] by euphemism instead of Erinnyes ["Furies"].Matched in translationhighshort
α2167Ἀνδρηλατεῖνto banish… Republic 565E); similar (longer) one in Photius. See e.g. Aeschylus, Eumenides 221, and generally LSJ s.v.Matched in noteshighshort
ε2995Ἐριννύων ἀπορρώξFuries' limb, Furies' off-shoot… is talking about Ajax. Also, search for the Furies under "Eumenides."Matched in translationhighshort
μ452Μελανείμονοςof a black-clad… Isis). The adjective occurs in the dative plural in Aeschylus, Eumenides 374.Matched in noteshighshort
αι319Αἰσιμίαapportionment… from the headword's appearance (in the dative plural) in Aeschylus, Eumenides 996: e)n ai)simi/aisi plou/tou (web address 1).Matched in noteshighshort
α283Ἀγνώμονεςunpardoning, hard-hearted… [1] Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 86 (Oedipus is addressing the Eumenides), with glosses from the scholia there. See web address 1.Matched in noteshighshort
ε3245Ἐσχάραι πυρόςembers of fire… have reversed the word-order. For e)sxa/rai puro/s exactly, see Aeschylus, Eumenides 108 (dative singular), and Job 41:11 LXX. cf. epsilon 3246 (and in a quite different context epsilon 3244); more generally epsilon 3242, epsilon …Matched in noteshighshort
α1033Ἀκταίνεινto lift up, to raise… usage of the verb in tragedy, noted there (see Aeschylus, Eumenides 36 [web address 2], cited by Latte on Hesychius s.v., where the gloss is metewri/zein). See however Plato, Laws 672C (on the behaviour …Matched in noteshighshort
ε584Ἔκπλυτονwashed-out… figuratively of a miasma. (Nevertheless see already for this Aeschylus, Eumenides 281.) [2] This additional gloss is lacking, Adler reports, in mss FVM. In ps.-Zonaras it is given as a)sqene/s ('weak') in place of …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1286Κελαινόςblack, murky, dark… 1288), cf. kelaino/frwn, spoken by Orestes of his mother (Aeschylus, Eumenides 459).Matched in noteshighshort
β392Βορβοροτάραξιo muck-raker… Knights 309 (web address 1 below), with scholion. [2] Aeschylus, Eumenides 694-5 (web address 2 below); Zenobius 2.76. [3] From the dream-interpretations, in verse, attributed to Astrampsychus (alpha 4251); repeated at kappa 2060.Matched in noteshighshort
κ2320Κραναῶνof the rugged ones, of the Kranaoi… a mythical Kranaos as progenitor of Attica, as in Aeschylus, Eumenides 1011, "Children of Kranaos". [2] Quotation unidentifiable. (But Nonnus, Dionysiaca 22.20, 45.308 has the formula "the rocky stone [kranah\ pe/trh] swelled, disgorging wine".) …Matched in noteshighshort
αι7Αἰανὴς κύκλοςdread circle… on folk etymology. Fairly early examples occur, however, e.g. Aeschylus, Eumenides 672. [1] Sophocles, Ajax 672 (text at web address 1), with Lloyd-Jones' translation from the Loeb edition. The Suda's glosses are derived from …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1093Δίκηςof justice… see Homer, Odyssey 19.109ff.; further parallels are Aeschylus, Supplices 627-29, Eumenides 937-87; Sophocles, Oedipus Rex 269-71. The notion is also to be seen in the accounts concerning the Golden Age; conversely, ancient writers very …Matched in noteshighmedium