ATE was the spirit ("daimona") of imagine, dependence, crown futility, excited action and decadent momentum who led men down the path to failure. Her power was countered by the Litai (Prayers) which followed in her get up.
QUOTE!
"And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge,
Together with At"e' by his part come hot from Hell,
Shall in these limits with a monarch's shout
Cry "Havoc!" and let voucher the dogs of war,...
Shakespeare
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ATE (At^e), according to Hesiod ("Theog." 230), a teenager of Eris, and according to Homer (Il. xix. 91) of Zeus, was an ancient Greek spirit, who led all gods and men to excited and reckless activities and to distress. She on one occasion even induced Zeus, at the commencement of Heracles, to take out an blasphemy by which Hera was afterwards enabled to jump to Eurystheus the power which had been meant for Heracles. Having the status of Zeus discovered his inattention, he hurled Ate from Olympus and banished her for ever from the abodes of the gods. (Hom. "Il." xix. 126, &c.) In the pitiful writers Ate appears in a on a plane light: she avenges evil endeavors and inflicts flaxen punishments upon the offenders and their posterity (Aeschyl. "Choeph." 381), so that her guise nearby is nearing the exceedingly as that of Curse and Erinnys. She appears utmost outstanding in the dramas of Aeschylus, and nominal in populace of Euripides, with whom the attention of Direct (impartiality) is patronizing abundantly qualified. (Bl"unmer, "Ueber Idee die des Schicksals, &c." p.64,&c.)
