god
Pallas Athena
Pallas
also: Minerva, Pallas Athena
The grey-eyed goddess of wisdom; 'a little Pallas' is the lover's gloss for grey eyes.
Reading notes
- On the Nature of Things §4.70 Pallas
Pallas Athena, the grey-eyed goddess; 'a little Pallas' is the lover's flattering gloss for grey eyes — one of a famous catalogue of euphemisms.
- On the Nature of Things §6.21 Pallas Tritonis
Pallas Athena, here with the cult-epithet Tritonis; the birdless ground by her Athenian temple, Lucretius says, is a natural effect, not the crows' avoidance of her wrath.