Luctus
a personification of grief or mourning, is described as a son of Aether and Terra. (Hygin. Praef.) This being, who wasted (edax) the energies of man, is placed by the poets together with other horrible creatures, at the entrance of the lower world. (Verg. A. 6.274; Sil. Ital. 13.581.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.