The corpus record — Latin

Eumenides

Eumenides · f

the Furies

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Where it lives

de raptu Proserpinae 2 · 2.87/10k
Ibis 1 · 2.54/10k
Thebais 12 · 1.92/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Georgicon 2 · 1.41/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
Hercules 1 · 1.31/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 1 · 0.89/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Argonautica 3 · 0.81/10k
Silvae 2 · 0.8/10k
Pharsalia 4 · 0.79/10k

Densest 12 of 22 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Eumĕnĭdes — Lewis & Short

Eumĕnĭdes, um, f., = *eu)meni/des (the benevolent, the gracious ones), a euphemistic name for

I the Furies, Cic. N. D. 3, 18, 46; Hor. C. 2, 13, 36; Verg. G. 1, 278; 4, 483; id. A. 4, 469 al.—In the sing.: Eumenis, a Fury, Sil. 2, 559; Stat. Th. 12, 423.

In the wild

Eumenidum Prudentius, Contra Symmachum 1.1.356
Eumenidumque Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 3.54
Eumenides Lucan, Pharsalia 6.664
Eumenidesque Vergil, Georgicon 1.278
Eumenidum Lucan, Pharsalia 9.642
Eumenidum Vergil, Aeneid 4.469

6 of 48 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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