Limus

"Hunger." The emaciated personification of hunger, famine, and starvation. She is described by Hesiod1 as the offspring of Eris or Discord. A poetical description of Limus occurs in Ovid,2 and Virgil3 places it, along with other monsters, at the entrance of Orcus. The Romans called her Fames.

References

Notes

  1. Hesiod. Theogony, 227.
  2. Metamorphoses viii, 800 ff.
  3. Aeneid vi, 276.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.