Harrison, Jane Ellen, 1850-1928 · London, Rivingtons · leaf 260
ring two flaming torches ; she is youthful,and wears the conventional dress of the Erinys—ia late artthat of a maiden huntress,—buskins on her feet, and a wildbeasts skin girt about her. Lower ^own on the picture,and considerably to the left, are two more Erinues in similargarb; the standing one is… … en Ph MYTH OF THE DESCENT INTO HADES. 135 their dread functions, and why ? The familiar words returnto us— qnin ipsae stupuere domus, atque intima leti Tartara, caeruleosque implexae crinibus angues Eumenides ; and turning again to our picture, we see why upon the high halls of Dis has fallen this…
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