proper noun
Ĕrīnys
Meaning
- one of the Furies
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
dea furōris et īraeErīnys -yos (f) — in Metamorphoses I, ch. 4
Ĕrīnys (or, less correctly, Erinnys; cf. Wagner ad Verg. A. 2, 337), ўos, f., = Ἐριννύς (Ἐρινύς),
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.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
Erīnys (not -innys), yos, f
, Ἐρινύς, a Fury, goddess of revenge, Remorse, V., O., Iu.—Plur., Pr. —Poet.: Troiae communis, the scourge, curse, V.: feror, quo tristis Erinys (vocat), fury, V.