Oizys

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In

romanized: Oïzús, lit.'misery'[1]), or Oezys, is the personification of pain or distress.[2]

In

Hyginus, "Miseria" (Misery) is one of the offspring of the Nox (Night, the Roman equivalent of Nyx) and Erebus.[4]
Oizys has no distinct mythology of her own.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Montanari, s.v. ὀϊζύς, p. 1429.
  2. ^ Gantz, p. 5.
  3. ^ Hesiod, Theogony 211–255.
  4. Hyginus, Fabulae Preface; Cicero, De Natura Deorum
    3.17

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