Fama (Gr. Phēmē), the goddess of rumour, a personification which appears in the works of the earliest poets. Sophocles makes her the child of Hope; Virgil, the youngest daughter of Terra, and sister of Enceladus and Cæus.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 541
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