The blacke infernall Furies, the Erinyes, or goddesses of vengeance, who dwelt in Erebus.
But Orestes was not yet relieved from the vengeance of the Erinyes.
The poet when he wrote like this saw the Erinyes with his own eyes, and he almost compels his readers to see them too.
Her action is too capricious, as though the Erinyes selected for punishment only certain men and certain sins.
Thus they were supposed to have borne away the daughters of King Pandareos to act as servants to the Erinyes.
