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Ἄτλας

Third declension Noun; Masculine 고유 그리스 Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἄτλας

Structure: Ἀτλαντ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: a euphon. , tla/s, v. Talaw

Sense

  1. Atlas
  2. Mount Atlas, the pillar of heaven

Declension

Third declension
Singular
Nominative Ἄτλας
Genitive Ά̓τλαντος
Dative Ά̓τλαντι
Accusative Ά̓τλαντα
Vocative Ά̓τλαν

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ὑπάρξαι δ’ Ἄτλαντι καὶ θυγατέρασ ἑπτά, τὰσ κοινῶσ μὲν ἀπὸ τοῦ πατρὸσ καλουμένασ Ἀτλαντίδασ, ἰδίᾳ δ’ ἑκάστην ὀνομαζομένην Μαῖαν, Ἠλέκτραν, Ταϋγέτην, Στερόπην, Μερόπην, Ἁλκυόνην, καὶ τελευταίαν Κελαινώ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 60 4:1)
  • Νασαμῶνεσ γάρ, οὓσ Ἄτλαντασ Ἡρόδοτοσ, οἱ δὲ μέτρα φάμενοι γῆσ εἰδέναι Λιξίτασ καλοῦσι, Λιβύων οἱ ἔσχατοι πρὸσ Ἄτλαντι οἰκοῦσι σπείροντεσ μὲν οὐδέν, ἀπὸ δὲ ἀμπέλων ζῶντεσ ἀγρίων. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 33 8:1)
  • τὸ γὰρ πρὸσ τῷ Ἄτλαντι ὕδωρ, τρισί παρεχόμενον ἀρχὰσ ῥεύμασιν, οὐδὲν τῶν ῥευμάτων ποιεῖ ποταμόν, ἀλλὰ πᾶν ὁμοίωσ αὐτίκα ἔχει συλλαβοῦσα ἡ ψάμμοσ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 33 8:3)
  • ὁ δὲ Ἀντωνῖνοσ, ὅτῳ καὶ ἐσ Παλλαντιεῖσ ἐστιν εὐεργετήματα, πόλεμον μὲν Ῥωμαίοισ ἐθελοντὴσ ἐπηγάγετο οὐδένα, πολέμου δὲ ἄρξαντασ Μαύρουσ, Λιβύων τῶν αὐτονόμων τὴν μεγίστην μοῖραν, νομάδασ τε ὄντασ καὶ τοσῷδε ἔτι δυσμαχωτέρουσ τοῦ Σκυθικοῦ γένουσ ὅσῳ μὴ ἐπὶ ἁμαξῶν, ἐπὶ ἵππων δὲ αὐτοί τε καὶ αἱ γυναῖκεσ ἠλῶντο, τούτουσ μὲν ἐξ ἁπάσησ ἐλαύνων τῆσ χώρασ ἐσ τὰ ἔσχατα ἠνάγκασεν ἀναφυγεῖν Λιβύησ, ἐπί τε Ἄτλαντα τὸ ὄροσ καὶ ἐσ τοὺσ πρὸσ τῷ Ἄτλαντι ἀνθρώπουσ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 43 5:1)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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