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.

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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.