the goddess of mischief, in the Pagan theology. She was daughter of Jupiter, and cast down from heaven at the birth of Hercules. For Juno having deceived Jupiter, in causing Eurythreus to be born before Hercules, Jupiter expressed his resentment on Ate, as the author of that mischief: and threw her headlong from heaven to the earth, swearing she should never return thither again (Homer II. xix. 125.). The name of this goddess comes from aza, noceo, "to hurt." Her being the daughter of Jupiter, means, according to mythologists, that no evil happens to us but by the permission of Providence; and her banishment to earth denotes the terrible effects of divine justice among men.