Plutus

, a son of Jasion, or Jasius, by Ceres the godde of corn, has been confounded by many of the mythologists with Pluto, though plainly distinguished from him as being the god of riches. He was brought up by the godde of peace, and on that account, Pax was represented at Athens as holding the god of wealth in her lap. The Greeks spoke of him as of a fickle divinity. They represented him as blind, because he distributed riches indiscriminately; he was lame, because he came slow and gradually; but had wings, to intimate that he flew away with more velocity than he approached mankind. Lucian , Timon .— Pausanias , bk. 9 , chs. 16 & 26.— Hyginus , Poetic a Astronomic a .— Aris toph anes , Plutus .— Diodorus , bk. 5 .— Hesoid , Theogony , li. 970 .— Dionysius of Halicarna us , bk. 1 , ch. 53 .