Ate

Atë

... In Spencer's The Faerie Queene, a fiend from Hell disguised as a beautiful woman is called Ate ... This is a possible parallel to the fallen angels ...

Famous quotes containing the word ate:

    “my Uncle Sol’s farm
    failed because the chickens
    ate the vegetables so
    my Uncle Sol had a
    chicken farm till the
    skunks ate the chickens when”
    —E.E. (Edward Estlin)

    “Buz, quoth the blue fly,
    Hum, quoth the bee,
    Buz and hum they cry,
    And so do we:
    In his ear, in his nose, thus, do you see?
    He ate the dormouse, else it was he.”
    —Ben Jonson (1572–1637)

    “He ate and drank the precious Words,
    His Spirit grew robust;
    He knew no more that he was poor,
    Nor that his frame was Dust.”
    —Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)