Hear me, illustrious Furies [Eumenides], mighty named, terrific powers, for prudent counsel famed; Holy and pure, from Hades born and Persephone, whom lovely locks adorn: Whose piercing sight, with vision unconfined, surveys the deeds of all the impious kind: On Fate attendant, punishing the race (with wrath severe) of deeds unjust and base. Dark-coloured queens, whose glittering eyes, are bright with dreadful, radiant, life-destroying, light: Eternal rulers, terrible and strong, to whom revenge, and tortures dire belong; Fatal and horrid to the human sight, with snaky tresses wandering in the night; Either approach, and in these rites rejoice, for ye, I call, with holy, suppliant voice.