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Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1842 · p. 31

(Lat.) In Mythology, the godde of night. In the Grecian mythology, she was the daughter of Chaos, the sister of Elpen and Erebus, and the mother of ^ther, Hemera, Manatas, Momus, the Fates, . .; which were all personifications of the natural phenomena life, sleep, death, . [s. 844]