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