Eumenides

[ yoo-men-i-deez ]

/ yuˈmɛn ɪˌdiz /

(used with a plural verb) Classical Mythology. a euphemistic name for the Furies, meaning “the Kindly Ones.”

(italics) (used with a singular verb) a tragedy (485 b.c.) by Aeschylus.

Compare Oresteia.

Example sentences from the Web for eumenides

He had lost the sense of what the Chorus was in the hands of the great masters, say in the Bacchae or the Eumenides.

The Poetics |Aristotle
In the Eumenides of Aeschylus, the plea of Orestes in extenuation of his crime is that he is not of kin to his mother.

The God-Idea of the Ancients |Eliza Burt Gamble
The king could not understand why he shrank from writing music to the choruses of schylus's "Eumenides."

Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 8 (of 8) |Various
In certain tragedies, these singers personated the Eumenides or Furies.

The Student's Mythology |Catherine Ann White

Here is no need of the Eumenides, children of Night everlasting; for here is very Night herself.

Shakespearean Tragedy |A. C. Bradley

Eumenides

/ (juːˈmɛnɪˌdiːz) /

another name for the Furies, used by the Greeks as a euphemism

from Greek, literally: the benevolent ones, from eumenēs benevolent, from eu- + menos spirit