ἄλλα δ᾽ ἀλλαχοῦ καλά: schol. “ἄλλα ὀνόματα παρ᾽ ἄλλοις καλὰ νομίζεται”. Wunder and others quote Plut. Them. 27 “ὦ ξένε, νόμοι διαφέρουσιν ἀνθρώπων: ἄλλα δ᾽ ἄλλοις καλά”. This is against rendering, "but otherwhere [the folk would give them] other fair names." Near Megalopolis, on the road to Messene, there was a shrine of the Μανίαι: “δοκεῖν δέ μοι, θεῶν τῶν Εὐμενίδων ἐστὶν ἐπίκλησις”, Paus. 8.34.1. Aeschines gives the attributes of the Erinyes to the Ποιναί (“τοὺς ἠσεβηκότας...ἐλαύνειν καὶ κολάζειν δᾷσὶν ἡμμέναις,” .or. 1 § 190). As at Athens they were Σεμναί, at Thebes they were Πότνιαι (cp. 84). Another name was Ἀραί (Eum. 417).
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