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 Eulen-spie’gel (Thyl)Eumen’ides [the good-tempered goddesses]. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Eumæ’os
 
or Eumæus. A swineherd. So called from the slave and swineherd of Ulysses.   1
        “This second Eumæus strode hastily down the forest glade, driying before him … the whole herd of his inharmonious charge.”—Sir Walter Scott.
 


 Eulen-spie’gel (Thyl)Eumen’ides [the good-tempered goddesses]. 

 
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