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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

  • μετὰ δὲ τὸν Ἀπόλλωνα ξόανόν ἐστιν Ἄτλαντοσ, μετὰ δὲ Ἑρμέω καὶ Εἰλειθυίησ. (Lucian, De Syria dea, (no name) 38:1)
  • ἀλλὰ μὴν καὶ ἐν τῷ τῶν Ἐπικουρείων βίῳ γενόμενοσ αὖθισ παρὰ τῇ Καλυψοῖ, ὅτε αὐτῷ ὑπῆρχεν ἐν ἀργίᾳ τε βιοτεύειν καὶ τρυφᾶν καὶ βινεῖν τὴν Ἄτλαντοσ θυγατέρα καὶ κινεῖν πάσασ τὰσ λείασ κινήσεισ, . (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 10:8)
  • οὐρανοῦ θ’ ὑπὸ μέσσαν ἐλαύνει χέρασ ἕδραν, Ἄτλαντοσ δόμον ἐλθών, ἀστρωπούσ τε κατέσχεν οἴ‐ κουσ εὐανορίᾳ θεῶν· (Euripides, Heracles, choral, ephymnion 21)
  • σαφῶσ γὰρ τὰσ Πλειάδασ οὔσασ Ἄτλαντοσ θυγατέρασ Πελειάδασ καλεῖ, καθάπερ καὶ Πίνδαροσ ἐστὶ δ’ ἐοικὸσ ὀρειᾶν γε Πελειάδων μὴ τηλόθεν Οἀρίωνα νεῖσθαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 80 1:1)
  • καὶ Αἰσχύλοσ δ’ ἐκφανέστερον προσπαίζων τῷ ὀνόματι κατὰ τὴν ὁμοφωνίαν φησὶ, αἱ δ’ ἕπτ’ Ἄτλαντοσ παῖδεσ ὠνομασμέναι πατρὸσ μέγιστον ἆθλον οὐρανοστεγῆ κλαίεσκον, ἔνθα νυκτέρων φαντασμάτων ἔχουσι μορφὰσ ἄπτεροι Πελειάδεσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 80 2:1)

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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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