Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word DIRAE

Definitions of DIRAE

1. (Roman god) The goddesses of vengeance; they were also known to accompany Invidia. They are the Roman counterparts of the Furies/Erinyes.

Examples of Using DIRAE in a Sentence

• The vita which preceded the 4th century commentary of Donatus, which is generally supposed to be heavily dependent on the 2nd century Suetonius, enumerated the Catalepton, Priapea, Epigrammata, Dirae, Ciris, and Culex as early works of Virgil; yet as two 15th century manuscripts omit the Catalepton and Ciris, but insert the Moretum, Henry Nettleship suspects that Suetonius referred only to the Culex, of which he goes on to give a brief account, and the rest of the list is interpolated.
• The Dirae consists of imprecations against the estate of which the writer has been deprived, and where he is obliged to leave his beloved Lydia; in the Lydia, on the other hand, the estate is regarded with envy as the possessor of his charmer.
• Sometimes this duty extended to the world of men, where the Erinys (also called Dirae, Furiae, Eumenides or Semnae) would pursue criminals, at the behest of Nemesis, permitting the fugitive no rest.

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