Famine

Family: personified forces · Role: personification of hunger · First appears: Fable 76

Life events

Ceres sends Famine to punish Erisicthon for profaning her sacred grove.(Fable76 · 📍 Scythia)
- With: Ceres Oreas Erisicthon
- “‘There is an icy region in the extreme part of Scythia, a dreary soil, a land, desolate, without corn {and} without trees; there dwell drowsy Cold, and Paleness, and Trembling, and famishing Hunger; order her to bury herself in the breast of this sacrilegious {wretch}.”
Famine enters Erisicthon’s chamber and fills his body with insatiable hunger.(Fable76)
- With: Erisicthon
- “Famine executes the orders of Ceres (although she is ever opposing her operations), and is borne by the winds through the air to the assigned abode, and immediately enters the bedchamber of the sacrilegious {wretch}, and embraces him, sunk in a deep sleep ({for} it is night-time), with her two wings.”

rivals with Ceres (Famine continually opposes Ceres's operations.) “Famine executes the orders of Ceres (although she is ever opposing her operations),”
enemies with Erisicthon (Famine is sent to torment Erisicthon.) “Famine executes the orders of Ceres (although she is ever opposing her operations), and is borne by the winds through the air to the assigned abode, and immediately enters the bedchamber of the sacrilegious {wretch}, and embraces him, sunk in a deep sleep ({for} it is night-time), with her two wings.”
with Oreas (Oreas delivers Ceres's commands to Famine.) “Soon as {Oreas} beheld her at a distance (for she did not dare come near her), she delivered the commands of the Goddess;”
with Erisicthon (Famine carries out Ceres's punishment against Erisicthon.) “Famine executes the orders of Ceres (although she is ever opposing her operations), and is borne by the winds through the air to the assigned abode, and immediately enters the bedchamber of the sacrilegious {wretch},”

Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.