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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

  • Ἄτλασ δ’ οὐρανὸν εὐρὺν ἔχει κρατερῆσ ὑπ’ ἀνάγκησ πείρασιν ἐν γαίησ, πρόπαρ Εσπερίδων λιγυφώνων, ἑστηὼσ κεφαλῇ τε καὶ ἀκαμάτῃσι χέρεσσιν· (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 48:6)
  • Ἄτλασ, ὁ χαλκέοισι νώτοισ οὐρανὸν θεῶν παλαιὸν οἶκον ἐκτρίβων, θεῶν μιᾶσ ἔφυσε Μαῖαν, ἣ ’μ’ ἐγείνατο Ἑρμῆν μεγίστῳ Ζηνί, δαιμόνων λάτριν. (Euripides, Ion, episode 1:1)
  • καὶ Σιμωνίδησ δὲ τὰσ Πλειάδασ Πελειάδασ εἴρηκεν ἐν τούτοισ ι δίδωτι δ’ εὖχοσ Ἑρμᾶσ ἐναγώνιοσ, Μαίασ εὐπλοκάμοιο παῖσ, ἔτικτε δ’ Ἄτλασ ἑπτὰ ἰοπλοκάμων φιλᾶν θυγατρῶν τὰν γ’ ἔξοχον εἶδοσ, ταὶ καλέονται Πελειάδεσ οὐράνιαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 803)
  • "περὶ δὲ τῆσ γῆσ ἴσωσ Αἰσχύλοσ ὑμᾶσ πέπεικεν, ὡσ ὁ Ἄτλασ ἕστηκε, κίον’ οὐρανοῦ τε καὶ χθονὸσ ὤμοισ ἐρείδων, ἄχθοσ οὐκ εὐάγκαλον εἰ τῇ μὲν σελήνῃ κοῦφοσ ἀὴρ ὑποτρέχει καὶ στερεὸν ὄγκον οὐκ ἐχέγγυοσ ἐνεγκεῖν, τὴν δὲ γῆν κατὰ Πίνδαρον ἀδαμαντοπέδιλοι κίονεσ περιέχουσι· (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 6 1:6)
  • καὶ μὰν κεῖνοσ Ἄτλασ οὐρανῷ προσπαλαίει νῦν γε πατρῴασ ἀπὸ γᾶσ ἀπό τε κτεάνων· (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 4 89:4)

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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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