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Τάρταρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Τάρταρος Τάρταρᾱ Τάρταρον

Structure: Ταρταρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. Tartarus, the nether world

Examples

  • θυσίασ συνόδουσ, πέπαυκε δὲ τοὺσ ἀρχαιρεσιάζοντασ καὶ ψηφοφοροῦντασ καὶ περὶ τῶν κοινῶν ἐκκλησιάζοντασ, ἀναγκάζει δ’ ὅσα δούλουσ ἀργυρωνήτουσ ταλαιπωρεῖν λατομοῦντασ ὑλοτομοῦντασ ἀχθοφοροῦντασ, ἐν ταρτάροισ καὶ βαράθροισ δαπανωμένουσ, ἀνάπαυσιν τῶν κακῶν οὐδὲ τὴν ἐλαχίστην λαμβάνοντασ; (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 4, chapter 81 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. Tartarus

Related

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

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