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MEGERA. Megaera was one of the Furies or Erinyes, her sisters being Allecto and Tisiphone. Daughters of the Night, they lived in the Underworld, where Proserpina was their mistress (Met IV.451-454, 481-484; Aeneid VI.554-556, 570-572; RR 19835-19837).

The poet invokes the Erinyes and asks Megera, Alete, and Thesiphone to help him, Tr IV.22-24. [Alete: Herenus: Proserpina: Thesiphone]

Megera, the French variant, appears initially, Tr IV.24.


Ovid, Met, ed. and trans. F.J. Miller, I: 210-213; Virgil, Aeneid, ed. and trans. H.R. Fairclough, I: 544-547; RR, ed. E. Langlois, V: 18; RR, trans. C. Dahlberg, 326.
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever
Published by Garland Publishing, Inc., New York and London.

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