Such of the Furies as there sate, appeased
By the just sentence, nigh the court resolved
To fix their seat: but others whom the law
Appeased not, with relentless tortures still
Pursued me, till I reached the hallowed soil
Of Phoebus.[145]
But Orestes’ visit to Delphi merely suspends, it does not terminate, the pursuit of the Erinnyes. At this point the religious rather than the legal aspect of the Erinnyes comes into prominence, and what may be described as a magical mode of appeasement is indicated by Apollo when he commands Orestes to visit the temple of Artemis among the Tauri, to bring back with him the image of the Tauric Artemis and to deposit it in an Attic temple. Orestes says to Iphigeneia:
From the golden tripod burst
The voice divine, and sent me to this shore,
Commanding me to bear the image hence