Phthisis (mythology)

I can find no reason to believe that the ancient Greeks used "Phthisis" as a mythological personification. I can find no mention in Oxford Classical Dictionary, Brill's New Pauly, or the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Usages cited in LSJ are all medical or metaphorical; no use as a personification is mentioned. This article was previously sourced to theoi.org, which aside from being unreliable also did not support that there was a Greek mythological personification of phthisis; the closest they get is citing a passage of Seneca whose use of the word tabes in Latin might be read as a personification and might be glossed in Greek as phthisis, but one metaphorical use in poetry does not a mythological figure make, and one Latin metaphorical use in poetry certainly does not demonstrate the existence of a Greek myth. (proposed by Caeciliusinhorto-public)

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