- ἄτη
- ἄτη (ἀάω): ruinous mischief, ruin, usually in consequence of blind and criminal folly, infatuation; ἦ με μαλ' εἰς ἄτην κοιμήσατε νηλέι ὕπνῳ (addressed to the gods by Odysseus; while he slept his comrades had laid hands on the cattle of Helius), Od. 12.372, cf. Il. 2.111, Il. 8.237 ; τὸν δ' ἄτη φρένας εἷλε, ‘blindness’ (cf. what follows, στῆ δὲ ταφών: Patroclus stands dazed by the shock received from Apollo), Il. 16.805 ; εἵνεκ' ἐμεἶο κυνὸς καὶ Ἀλεξάνδρου ἕνεκ ἄτης (said by Helen), Il. 6.356; pl., ἐμὰς ἄτᾶς κατέλεξας, Il. 9.115, Κ 3, Il. 19.270. The notions of folly and the consequences of folly are naturally confused in this word, cf. Il. 24.480, and some of the passages cited above.— Personified, Ἄτη, Ate, the goddess of infatuation, πρέσβα Διὸς θυγάνηρ Ἄτη, ἣ πάντας ἀᾶται, Il. 19.91 (see what follows as far as v. 130, also Il. 9.500 ff.).
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