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In ancient Athens, Eleos (Ancient Greek Ἔλεος m.) or Elea[citation needed] 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]