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Aethon
Greek mythology
- According to Ovid (II, 153), one of Helios' horses.
- According to Virgil (XI, 89), Pallas' horse.
- The personification of famine, Demeter placed him in Erysichthon's gut, making Erysichthon permanently famished. His Roman equivalent was Fames, a female deity.
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