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, a malevolent deity, daughter of Nox, and sister to Nemesis, the Parcæ, and death. She was driven from heaven by Jupiter, because she sowed di ensions among the gods, and was the cause of continual quarrels. When the nuptials of Peleus and Thetis were celebrated, the godde of discord was not invited, and this seeming neglect so irritated her, that she threw an apple into the midst of the a embly of the gods, with the inscription of detur pulchriori . This apple was the cause of the ruin of Troy, and of infinite misfortunes to the Greeks. See: Paris . She is represented with a pale, ghastly look, her garment is torn, her eyes sparkle with fire, and she holds a dagger concealed in her bosom. Her head is generally entwined with serpents, and she is attended by Bell on a. She is supposed to be the cause of all di ensions, murders, wars, and quarrels which arise upon earth, public as well as private. Virgil , Æneid , bk. 8 , li. 702 .— Hesiod , Theogony , li. 225 .— Petronius.