Les Athéniens voulaient sans doute que ce symbolisme rappelât que l'Aéropage avait été institué pour se substituer aux Erinnies, filles de la Nuit, qui, d'après Homère, vivaient dans les ténèbres de l'Erèbe.
The Athenians no doubt wished this symbolism to recall the fact that the Areopagus had been established as a substitute for the Erinnyes, daughters of Night, who, according to Homer, lived in the shades of Erebus.
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