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They were usually represented as three: Tisiphone, Megaera and Alecto.

Here rose an iron tow’r: before the gate, By night and day, a wakeful Fury sate, The pale Tisiphone; a robe she wore, With all the pomp of horror, dy’d in gore.”

Say, what Tisiphone, what snakes, are driving you mad?

Being neglected by them, he makes his prayer to the Fury Tisiphone, to sow debate betwixt the brothers.

To explain it away is impossible; and your fear is, that Alecto, Tisiphone, or Megæra, will come flying into the parlour with a bloody cleaver, dripping with the butler's brains.