The corpus record — Latin

Erinys

Erinys · f

one of the Furies

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Where it lives

Octavia 5 · 9.56/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
Oedipus 2 · 3.37/10k
de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k
Argonautica 8 · 2.15/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.8/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 2 · 1.78/10k
Medea 1 · 1.77/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Thyestes 1 · 1.59/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Hercules 1 · 1.31/10k

Densest 12 of 20 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ĕrīnys — Lewis & Short

ĕrīnys (or, less correctly, Erinnys; cf. Wagner ad ўos, f., = *)erinnu/s (*)erinu/s),

Verg. A. 2, 337),

I one of the Furies, Verg. A. 7, 447; 570; Ov. M. 1, 241; 4, 490; 11, 14 et saep.—Acc. Erinyn, Ov. M. 1, 725.—In plur.: Erinyes, the Furies, Prop. 2, 20, 29 (3, 13, 29 M.); Ov. H. 11, 103.—Acc. Erinyas, Stat. Th. 11, 345.—

II Transf.

A Of Helen: Trojae patriae communis Erinys, the scourge, curse, Verg. A. 2, 573.—

B Appellatively, fury, frenzy, madness = furor, Verg. A. 2, 337: civilis, i. e. civil war, Luc. 4, 187.

In the wild

6 of 52 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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