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:To disguise herself in the guise of peace Discordia throws aside the attributes of division and of an evil multiplicity that define her as the personification of discord, and also identify her as a version of both the Virgilian Discordia and the Virgilian Allecto, herself an avatar of the Ennian Discordia. With ''Psychomachia'' 685–86 (“Her torn mantle and her whip of many snakes were left lying far behind amid the heaps of dead on the battlefield” [''scissa procul palla structum et serpente flagellum | multiplici media camporum in strage iacebant'']) compare both Discordia with her torn mantle at the battle of Actium (Aen. 8.702 ''et scissa gaudens uadit Discordia palla''), and the multiple serpents and shape-shiftings, and thousand names and harmful arts of Allecto (''Aen.'' 7.327–40).45 Once unmasked, Discordia identifies herself in a cacophony of alliteration and assonance, ringing changes on the prefix dis-: “I am called Discord, and my other name is Heresy; the God I have is variable” (709–10 ''Discordia dicor, | cognomento Heresis; Deus est mihi discolor'').46