OSSA

The personification of rumour or report, the Latin Fama. As it is often impossible to trace a report to its source, it is said to come from Zeus, and hence Ossa is called the messenger of Zeus. Sophocles calls her a daughter of Hope, and the poets, both Greek and Latin, have indulged in various imaginary descriptions of Ossa or Fama (Virgil Aeneid iv. Metamorphoses by Ovid, xii). At Athens she was honoured with an altar.