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ie its non. exillence i is more re ditindly proved 
in the fenitlets refult of all the 2 made jince the 
time of Linnzus to difcovera mene mple of this worm, 
than its exiftence can be demontftra 
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a. irene fe ie peerits interefted the attention of the 
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parts of Sweden, would have been direéted, we fhould imaz 
gine, with certainty to the object i In view. 
When - very exiftence of an animal is denied by are 
seks ity, as is precifely the fact with regard to 
the Furia infernalix’ it pei our ferious confideration : 
for notwithitanding the confummate knowledge of Lin- 
NUS, its original defcriber, i might, from fome adventitious 
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fhould at leat a aaa? hore. not. a all pas we are 
perfuaded the fa& is iti ertain, and perhaps our judg- 
mient ought to be iipentled ‘till the true mene of the malady 
it is fuppofed to eccafion be clearly determined to arife 
rom fome other canfe, or that the difcovery ef another 
ipecimen | .of the fame. worm fhould remove all doubt re- 
{pecting it 
FUR RIAN Law, in Roman Antiquity a teftamentary la aw, 
fo called from C. Facus; the tribune, by whofe wie it 
was enacted. This law forbad any Rone citizen to 
by legacy oe the value.of one thoufand afles to ne one 
Re erfon, and at the fame time condemned the legatee to pay 
our canes ce ‘fam which :was an him above what the 
law ftipulated. See Vocon1aw 
RIANA, in Geography, a river ol aed which runs 
into the fea on the North coatt. N. lat. E. long. 
and hereafter, andthe infliGtors of terrors, wars, and pefti 
The nifters of a. ay oe 
© paints them clothed in. long 
robes falling o sas heels, -but girt-abont the breaft. a 
were three in number, Tuisitpuonr, Mec ra, and CTO. 
Thefe names, w oe import rage, flaughter, envy, ce were 
ane applicable to them. 
to pe or to punifh the ache 
hus s Vigil {peaks of 
va dororum."’ Zn, Vie Ver. 571. | 
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But the three, above named, were fuppofed to exceed all 
the reft in cruelty and malice, a nd the power of doing mif. 
chief, and are called, by way of eminence, the Furies, and 
fometimes the Dire, a name peculiar to thefe thre ree. They 
were three fifters, and born at one birth of the goddefs of 
nee Ly a aa and /E{chylus fay, they were the daugh- 
ers of Night and Acheron. Others pretend that they owe 
ai ae . Pluto and aielae ne. Sophocles makes them 
{pring from the Earth a pepe we ; and Epimenides fays, 
they were the fifters of Venus dthe Parce, and the daugh~ 
ters of Saturn and Euonymus. 
Patin, Spanheim, &c. will have it that we fee thefe 
on the medal of the emperor Philip, ftruck at Antioch, 
on whofe = are reprefented three women drefled as 
above mentioned, an aie with a key, and burning 
torches, mee and ferpen 
Struvius, Antiq. Rom. Syat cap. i. p. 182. adds, that 
the three Furies may probabl be no other than the triple 
ecate, whom the ancients believed. to purfue and torment 
the dasa in hell, on earth, and in heaven. 
the poets add a fourth aes called Lyfe ; 
Greek word fignifying madnefs, or r Plutarch fing 
but of one fury, whom he calls drape, the daughter of 
Jupiter and Neceffity ; who, rae was the fole 
minifter of the vengeance .of t i, Virgil feems ta 
admit the Harpies into iad aie of the furies, and even 
calls naeie by that n fEn. |. iii. 252. 
€ poets say the furies as old, 
meagre, with pale 
fq ualid, and 
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their hands, to rt ee cr Their attendants were 
error, rage, palenefs, and death. Thus feated round 
Pluto’s throne, whofe prime minifters they were, they 
aited his 
ers with an impatience that marked out all 
the fury which they poffeffe 
The daffodil was facred to he furies, and fuch as offered 
facrifices to them This we ois 
eeks aia. — ripened the origin of which 
name is mek controverted among the learned. The 
etymology that feems belt aati cd, ae it from 
suzanne, gentle, mild ; 
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peafed and pacified the. furies, re that they ie to purfue 
him ; upon which ‘the Athenians ever after denominated 
them [= nides. 
t maf be obferved, that, in truth, the Athenians 
temple in Lreopagus he 
Eumenides, whom the Athen ns ne rei os sae pa 
Arittides, and the {eholiaft of Thuc ak, 
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