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Eumenʹides [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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Eucharis
Eucharist
Euclio
Eucratēs
Eudoxians
Eugenius
Eugubine Tables
Eulalie (St.)
Eulen-spiegel (Thyl)
Eumæos
Eumenides [the good-tempered goddesses]
Eumnestes [Memory]
Eunomians
Eupatridæ
Euphemisms
Eureka
Eurus
Eurydicē
Eustathians
Eutychians
Euxine Sea (The)

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Eumenides