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FURIES (Lat. Furiae, also called DIRAE)

This article appears in Volume V11, Page 358 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: FRA-GAE
FURIES (Lat. Furiae, also called DIRAE) , in
Roman
 
mythology
  an adaptation of the
Greek
  Erinyes (q.v.), with whom they are generally identical. A
special
  aspect of them in Virgil is that of agents employed by the higher gods to stir up
mischief
 , strife and hatred upon earth. Mention may here be made of an old Italian deity Furina (or Furrina), whose
worship
 
fell
  early into disuse, and who was almost forgotten in the time of
Varro
 . By the mythologists of Cicero's time the name was connected with the verb furere and the noun furia, which in the plural (not being used in the singular in this sense) was accepted as the equivalent of the
Greek
  Erinyes. But it is more probably related to furvus, fuscus, and signifies one of the spirits of darkness, who watched over men's lives and haunted their abodes. This goddess had her own
special
  priest, a grove across the Tiber where Gaius
Gracchus
  was slain, and a festival on the 25th of July. Authorities differ as to the existence of more than one goddess called Furina, and their identity with the Forinae mentioned in two
inscriptions
  found at Rome (C.I.L. vi. 422 and 10,200).


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