Meaning of Oizys | Babel Free

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The (female) personification of pain and distress; said by Hesiod is his Theogony to be the offspring of Nyx (Night) and produced without the assistance of a father; identified with the Roman Miseria (Misery).

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“1987, Richard S. Caldwell (translator), Hesiod, Theogony, Hackett Publishing Company (Focus), page 40, Next Momos and painful Oizys were born to the dark goddess Nyx, though she lay with no one,”

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