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|auten=([[ἀάω]]): [[ruinous]] [[mischief]], [[ruin]], [[usually]] in [[consequence]] of [[blind]] and [[criminal]] [[folly]], [[infatuation]]; ἦ με μαλ' εἰς ἄτην κοιμήσατε νηλέι ὕπνῳ (addressed to the gods by [[Odysseus]]; [[while]] he slept his comrades had laid hands on the [[cattle]] of Helius), Od. 12.372, cf. Il. 2.111, Il. 8.237; τὸν δ' [[ἄτη]] φρένας εἷλε, ‘[[blindness]]’ (cf. [[what]] follows, [[στῆ]] δὲ [[ταφών]]: [[Patroclus]] stands dazed by the [[shock]] [[received]] [[from]] [[Apollo]]), Il. 16.805; εἵνεκ' ἐμεἶο κυνὸς καὶ Ἀλεξάνδρου ἕνεκ ἄτης (said by Helen), Il. 6.356; pl., ἐμὰς ἄτᾶς κατέλεξας, Il. 9.115, Κ 3, Il. 19.270. The notions of [[folly]] and the consequences of [[folly]] are [[naturally]] [[confused]] in [[this]] [[word]], cf. Il. 24.480, and [[some]] of the passages cited [[above]].— Personified, Ἄτη, [[Ate]], the [[goddess]] of [[infatuation]], [[πρέσβα]] Διὸς θυγάνηρ Ἄτη, ἣ πάντας [[ἀᾶται]], Il. 19.91 (see [[what]] follows as [[far]] as v. 130, [[also]] Il. 9.500 ff.).