[158\5: ~hoi Areopagi=tai trei=s pou tou= mê=nos hême/ras ta\s phonika\s di/kas edi/kazon, heka/stê| tô=n theô=n mi/an hême/ran apone/montes~, Sch. Aeschin. 1, 188, p. 282 Sch. This certainly implies that the limitation of the number of the Erinyes to three (and not two for example--which first appears in Eurip., but was certainly not his own invention--was officially current in the worship of the city.--Since these three days were sacred to the Erinyes, as goddesses of Hades, they counted as ~apophra/des hême/rai~: _EM._ 131, 16 f.; _Et. Gud._ 70, 5 (the thirtieth day of the month is for that reason ~phau/lê pa=sin e/rgois~ acc. to "Orpheus" _fr._ 28 Ab.).] [159\5: Paus. 1, 28, 6.] [160\5: The Erinyes are the accusers of Orestes not only in Aeschylus (and thence in Eurip. too, _IT._ 940 ff.), but also in the varying accounts derived from different sources, in which the twelve gods served as judges ap. D. 23, 66 (cf. 74, and Dinarch., _adv. Dem._ 87).] [161\5: The Erinyes are said ~apo\ zô=ntos rhophei=n eruthro\n ek mele/ôn pe/lanon~, A., _Eum._ 264 f.; cf. 183 f.; 302; 305. In this they closely resemble the "vampires" which we hear of especially in Slav popular mythology, and the Tii of the Polynesians, etc. These, however, are the _souls of the dead_ returned from the grave and sucking men's blood.] [162\5: The Erinyes say to Orestes: ~emoi\ traphei/s te kai\ kathierôme/nos kai\ zô=n me dai/seis oude\ pro\s bômô=| sphagei/s~, A., _Eum._ 304 f. The matricide is divis parentum (i.e. their Manes) sacer, their sacrificial victim (~_thu=ma_ katachthoni/ou Dio/s~ D.H. 2, 10, 3), in the older belief of Greece, too.] [163\5: See _Rh. Mus._ 50, 6 ff.] [164\5: The fact that after receiving the ~ai/desis~ of the dead man's relatives the agent of a ~pho/nos akou/sios~ was still required to offer the expiatory sacrifice as well as undergo purification (~hilasmo/s~ and ~katharmo/s~) is alluded to by Dem. 23, 72-3, in the double expression ~thu=sai kai\ katharthê=nai, hosiou=n kai\ kathai/resthai~ (cf. Müller, _Aesch. Eum._, p. 144 [122, n. 2, E.T.]).] [165\5: See Philippi, _Areop. u. Eph._ 62.]