Erinyes

Sensible people are open to argument, and you know that the Erinyes always range themselves on the side of the older person.

When he had thus spoken, the Erinyes stayed his speech, and Achilles answered him in great sadness, saying, "Why, O Xanthos, do you thus foretell my death?

Zeus, and Fate [ Moira], and Erinys that walks in darkness struck me with derangement [ atê] when we were assembled on the day that I took from Achilles the prize that had been awarded to him.

for my mother when she leaves the house will call on the Erinyes to avenge her;

Neleus seized violently [ biê] his goods and held them for a whole year, during which he was a close prisoner in the house of king Phylakos, and in much distress of mind both on account of the daughter of Neleus and because he was haunted by a great sorrow [ atê] that dread Erinyes had laid upon him.

but one day when Aphrodite had gone up to Olympus to see Zeus about getting them married (for well does he know both what shall happen and what not happen to every one) the storm winds came and spirited them away to become handmaids to the dread Erinyes.

For neither are the Erinyes nor the Fates nor Destiny gods, since neither is the state nor glory nor wealth — which painters even show to be blind.

And indeed it is not so dreadful if men in the midst should take the voice of sheep or of cattle, nor if they neigh nor if they bark, as the poets say of Hecuba, that at last, after all the dreadful things, the Erinyes made her a fierce-eyed dog, and uttering bronze sounds from her grey jaws there harkened Ida and sea-girt Tenedos and the Thracian wind-loving fields.

I say this is not so dreadful a portent nor so abominable as when a man, being a man and having the same character and his own voice, and being unable to abolish the signs of his nature, not even if he do everything in concealing them, like a thief his stolen goods, being struck by certain Erinyes and twisted and broken in every way, wishes to do everything, and nothing as it is by nature;

On a fifth, they say, the Erinyes assisted at the birth of Horcus (Oath) whom Eris (Strife) bore to trouble the forsworn.

And I call for help to the eternal maidens who eternally attend to all sufferings among mortals, the dread, far-striding Erinyes, asking them to learn how my miserable life is destroyed by the Atreidae.

Therefore may the Father supreme on Olympus above us, and the unforgetting Fury and Justice the Fulfiller destroy them for their wickedness with wicked deaths, just as they sought to cast this man out with unmerited, outrageous mistreatment.

So hardened is she that she joins with this polluter, fearing no Erinys.

She, too, will come, she of many hands and many feet who lurks in her terrible ambush, the bronze-shod Erinys.

O potent Curse, and you fearsome daughters of the gods, the Erinyes, who take note when a life is unjustly taken, when a marriage-bed is thievishly dishonored, come, help me, bring vengeance for the murder of my father and send me my brother.