In vengeance for this, Orestes, Agamemnon's son, committed "mother-murder," and in consequence was driven by the Erinyes (Furies) of his mother into madness and exile.

In commenting on a quotation from the Orestes, of Euripides, he says: There the poet saw the Furies with his own eyes, and what his imagination presented he almost compelled his hearers to behold.

They appeared with the countenances of furies, and the snakes hissed around their temples.

When the passing-bell doth toll, And the furies in a shoal Come to fright a parting soul, Sweet Spirit, comfort me.

My musicke is a Canon; a pitcht field my stage; Furies the Actors, blood and vengeance the scaene; death the story; a sword imbrued with blood the pen that writes; and the Poet a terrible buskind Tragical fellow with a wreath about his head of burning match instead of Bayes.

That, Malateste, That, That Torrent wracks me; But Hymens Torch (held downe-ward) shall drop out, And for it the mad Furies swing their brands About the Bride-chamber.

Heere, peece-meale torne by Furies.

When the mother wolf, with her cubs at heel, saw one of these big furies at a distance she would circle prudently to avoid him.

And therewith flinging his arms into the air as though in the extremity of despair, he turned and incontinently departed, rushing forth out of the house as though stung by ten thousand furies.

That on his head he wore, and in his hand He tooke caduceus, his snakie wand, With which the damned ghosts he governeth, And furies rules, and Tartare tempereth.

Stay your furies my loving Countrimen. OMNES.

What means the wild rage that seizes upon these furies?

To learn the evil, indeed, according to their light, and the sure vengeance of Ate and the Furies which tracks up the evil-doer.

But the Sicilian had no heart in it, and evidently did not care whether Veronica touched him or not, and his indifference annoyed her, so that she sometimes worked herself into little furies of attack, and he, rather than really attack her in return and oppose his strength, broke ground and let himself be driven back across the room.

When I implor'd Apollo to remove The grisly band of Furies from my side, He seem'd, with hope-inspiring, godlike words, To promise aid and safety in the fane Of his lov'd sister, who o'er Tauris rules.

Thou dost increase the evil, and dost take The office of the Furies on thyself.

I the eldest joined; He slew our brother; and the Furies hence For kindred murder dog his restless steps.

A feverish madness oft doth seize on him, Yielding his spirit, beautiful and free, A prey to furies.

Hath the terrific Furies' grisly band Dried up the blood of life within thy veins?

Through my heart One fear doth chase another; perhaps with rage, Again on the unconsecrated shore, The Furies' grisly band my brother seize.

And so from Heav'n to deepest Hell. Alecto (Part I., Stanza II.) was one of the Furies.

all the furies, all the bloody reprisals, the dungeons, the gibbets, the massacres, all the martyrdoms by which human wickedness strove to stifle the voice of the just, are less horrible than this extermination by apathy.

They will tell him how infidelity made that splendid place a temple of the furies, how it laughed and yelled and applauded, as it amused itself with that spectacle of horror.

Lawyers Co-operative Pub. Co. (PCW); 11May64; R337547. STEAD, CHRISTINA. Beauties and furies.

By cursing the furies who fight and who bite ev'ry night To get in it; The folk who see red and who tread on the dead And climb over the slain, And who step on your face in the race for a place In the train.