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 Eurystheus 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, Il. xix. 129). The name of this goddess comes from \(\alpha \tau \alpha \rho \alpha\), nocco, "to hurt."