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 Eumen’ides [the good-tempered goddesses].Euno’mians. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Eumnes’tes [Memory],
 
who, being very old, keeps a little boy named Anamnests [Research] to fetch books from the shelves. (Spenser: Faërie Queene, book ii. 9.)   1
 


 Eumen’ides [the good-tempered goddesses].Euno’mians. 

 
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