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:
“Mother,
strange goddess face
above my milk home,
that delicate asylum,
I ate you up.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“Isabel, Isabel, didn’t worry,
Isabel didn’t scream or scurry.
She washed her hands and she straightened her hair up,
Then Isabel quietly ate the bear up.”
—Ogden Nash (1902–1971)
“She saved for tomorrow. When she was asleep, the dog ate up her flour.”
—Punjabi proverb, trans. by Gurinder Singh Mann.