god
Necessitas
Necessity
also: Necessitas
Necessity personified, the grim power who goes before Fortune bearing spikes, wedges, and molten lead.
Reading notes
- The Odes §1.35 Necessity
The grim power who walks before Fortune bearing spikes, wedges, clamp, and molten lead.
- The Odes §3.1 Necessity
The impartial power whose urn shakes every name, high or low, alike.
- The Odes §3.24 Necessity
Whose 'adamantine nails' fix every roof; no wealth escapes her.