DISCORD I A

In My thology, a malevolent deity, daughter of Night, and sister of Erinnys, the Parcn\ and Death. She is represented as having been banished from heaven by Jupiter, on account of the broils she perpetually occasioned. This was the godde who, from disappointment at not being invited to the marriage of Thetis and Peleus, threw into the midst of the a embly the golden apple, with the inscription detur pulchriori (let it be given to the fairest); which, as is well known, occasioned the famed contest between the godde es Juno, Minerva, and Venus, and ultimately led to the Trojan war, and the destruction of Troy. The ancient poets represent this divinity with a pale and ghastly look, a dagger in her hand, and her hair entwined with serpents; and Milton graphically describes her as Discord, with a you sand various mouths. [s. 366]