Ἄτη
destruction, Destruction
Translated by Jennifer Benedict24 Mar 2002Vetting: high8 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] harm.1 Homer [writes]: "immediately he seized Destruction by her shining-tressed head."2 "[She] who walks upon the heads of men."3
Buta)/th [sc. can also mean] the devil, the adversary.4
Sophocles [writes]: "but I cry with good intentions, like a true mother, do not beget destruction upon destructions."5 And Sophocles elsewhere [writes]: "I know no one, but I pity that wretch all the same, even though he is ill-intentioned, since he is yoked to horrible destruction."6
But
Sophocles [writes]: "but I cry with good intentions, like a true mother, do not beget destruction upon destructions."5 And Sophocles elsewhere [writes]: "I know no one, but I pity that wretch all the same, even though he is ill-intentioned, since he is yoked to horrible destruction."6