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EUMENIDES (from Gr. evµevtits, kindly; di, well, and jAvos, disposition)  , the " kindly ones," a
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euphemism for the
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Furies or
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Erinyes (q.v.) . They give their name to a famous
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play by
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Aeschylus (q.v.), written in glorification of the old
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religion and aristocratic
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government of
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Athens, in opposition to the new
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democracy of the Periclean
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period .

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