seems in many places to have been very formidable. In
consequence of this we find her with Minos, and Rhadamanthus, condemned to
the shades below, as an infernal inquisitor. Nonnus says,

[739][Greek: Persephone thorexen Erinnuas.]

_Proserpine armed the furies_. The notion of which Furies arose from the
cruelties practised in these Prutaneia. They were called by the Latines,
Furiae; and were originally only priests of fire: but were at last ranked
among the hellish tormentors. Ceres the benefactress, and lawgiver, was
sometimes enrolled in the list of these daemons. This is manifest from a
passage in Antimachus, quoted by Pausanias, where her temple is spoken of
as the shrine of a Fury.

[740][Greek: Demetros, tothi phasin Erinnuos einai edethlon.]

The like is mentioned by the Scholiast upon Lycophron, [741][Greek: Erinnus
he Demeter en Onkais polei tes Arkadias timaitai.] Her temple stood upon
the river Ladon, and she had this name given to her by the people of the
place. [Greek: Kalousi de Erinnun hoi Thelpousioi ten Theon.] _The
Thelpusians call the Goddess Demeter a Fury_. Herodotus speaks of a
Prutaneion in Achaia Pthiotic, called Leitus; of which he gives a fearful
account. _No person_, he says, _ever entered the precincts, who returned.
Whatever person ever strayed that way, was immediately seized upon by the
priests, and sacrificed. The custom so far prevailed, that many, who
thought they were liable to suffer, fled away to foreign parts. And he
adds, that after a long time, when any of them ventured to return, if they
were caught, they were immediately led to the Prutaneion. Here they were
crowned with garlands. and in great parade conducted to the altar_. I shall
quote the author's words. [742][Greek: Leiton de kaleousi to Prutaneion hoi
Achaioi; en de eselthei, ouk esti, hokos exeisi, prin e thusesthai mellei;
hoste ti pros toutoisi polloi ede ton mellonton touteon thusesthai,
deisantes oichonto apodrantes es allen choren. Chronou de proiontos, opiso
katelthontes, en aliskontai, estellonto es to Prutaneion, hos thuetai te
exegeonto, stemmasi pas pukastheis, kai hos sun pompei exachtheis.] The
people of Leitus are said to have been the sons of Cutissorus. Herodotus
speaks of the temple, as remaining in his time: and of the custom still
subsisting. He farther mentions, that when Xerxes was informed of the
history of this place, as he passed through Thessaly, he withheld himself
from being guilty of