Aethon

Fames (Latin: "Hunger " ) was in ancient Roman poets personification of hunger (according to the Greek Limos in Hesiod ). Virgil calls him male tirade ( " evil tempting " ) and puts him at the entrance to Hades. In Ovid Fames is a hollow -sighted, emaciated woman with shaggy hair and a pale face, which dwells in the ice fields of Scythia in the Caucasus. By order of the goddess of agriculture, Ceres, Fames punishes the Erysichthon.

In Virgil there is also the saying auri sacra fames " Accursed thirst for gold." She is quoted by the pirate band formed in Asterix Asterix and.