A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

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one of the very first created beings, for she is de- as a winged goddess (Eurip. Orest. 176), and
scribed as the daughter of Chaos, and the sister of sometimes as riding in a chariot, covered with a
Erebus, by whom she became the mother of Aether dark garment and accompanied by the stars in her
and Hemera. (Hes. T/zeog. 123, &c.) According course. (Eurip. Ion, 1150; Theocrit. ii. in fin.;
to the Orphics (Aryon. 14) she was the daughter Orph. Hyimn. 2. 7; Virg. Aen. v. 721; Tibull. ii.
of Eros. She is further said, without any husband, 1. 87; Val. Flacc. iii. 211.) Her residence was
to have given birth to Moros, the Keres, Thanatos, in the darkness of Hades. (Hes. Theog. 748;
Hypnos, Dreams, Momus, Oizys, the Hesperides, Eurip. Orest. 175; Virg. Aen. vi. 390.) A statue
Moerae, Nemesis, and similar beings. (Hes. Theog. of Night, the work of Rhoecus, existed at Ephesus
211, &c:; Cic. de Nat. Deor. iii. 17.) In later (Paus. x. 38. ~ 3). On the chest of Cypselus sheu
poets, with whom she is merely the personification was represented carrying in her arms the gods of
of the darkness of night, she is sometimes described Sleep and Death, as two boys (v. 18. ~ 1). [L. S.]
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