Eleos

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In ancient Athens, Eleos (Ancient Greek Ἔλεος m.) or Elea was the personification of mercy, clemency, compassion and pity – the counterpart of the Roman goddess Clementia.^{[citation needed]} Pausanias described her as "among all the gods the most useful to human life in all its vicissitudes."^[1]