[L., a. Gr. ἄτη.] Infatuation, mad impulse; personified by the Greeks as goddess of mischief and authoress of rash destructive deeds.
1587. Golding, De Mornay, xvii. 271. Homer speaketh of a Goddesse whom he calleth Até, that is Waste, Losse, or Destruction.
1617. Collins, Def. Bp. Ely, II. ix. 405. Ill newes flyes apace, the Ate still out-running the Litae.
1725. Pope, Iliad, XIX. 92. Not by myself but vengeful Ate driven.
1819. Byron, Proph. Dante, I. 117. Death and Até range O’er humbled heads.
