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The Furies.—See next piece.

FOOTNOTES TO THE EUMENIDES

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This original germ of the Furies is mentioned frequently in these plays, as πολυκρατεῖς ἀρὰι φθιμενων, Fell Curses of the Dead, in the Choephoræ, [p. 111] in above. See also the words of Clytemnestra, My curse beware, [p. 126] above.

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Wordsworth’s “Athens and Attica,” London, 1836, c. 11.

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“Καὶ τὴν μὲν ἐν Ἀρείῳ πάγῳ βουλὴν Ἑφιάλτης ἐκόλουσε καὶ Περικλῆς. τὰ δὲ δικαστήρια μισθοφόρα κατέστησε Περικλῆς.”—Aristotle, Pol. II. 9. 3.

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