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:
“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)
“She saved for tomorrow. When she was asleep, the dog ate up her flour.”
—Punjabi proverb, trans. by Gurinder Singh Mann.
“Mother,
strange goddess face
above my milk home,
that delicate asylum,
I ate you up.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)