Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • τὸ δὲ βάθοσ τὸ πολλὸν τοῦ ἠέροσ Τάρταροσ καλέεται. (Lucian, De astrologia, (no name) 21:3)
  • Χάοσ ἦν καὶ Νὺξ Ἔρεβόσ τε μέλαν πρῶτον καὶ Τάρταροσ εὐρύσ, γῆ δ’ οὐδ’ ἀὴρ οὐδ’ οὐρανὸσ ἦν· (Aristophanes, Birds, Parabasis, parabasis3)
  • διὸ καὶ Τάρταροσ οὗτοσ ὑπὸ ψυχρότητοσ κέκληται δηλοῖ δὲ καὶ Ἡσίοδοσ εἰπὼν τάρταρά τ’ ἠερόεντα· (Plutarch, De primo frigido, chapter, section 9 4:3)
  • "τῷ γὰρ ὄντι τοῦτ’ ἐστὶ τὸ μίασμα τῆσ σαρκὸσ ἡμῶν καὶ ὁ τάρταροσ; (Plutarch, Septem sapientium convivium, chapter, section 162)
  • θεῶν δ’ εἱμαρμένα δῶρα οὐκ ἂν ῥηϊδίωσ θνητὸσ ἀνὴρ προφύγοι, οὔτ’ ἂν πορφυρέησ καταδὺσ ἐσ πυθμένα λίμνησ, οὔθ’ ὅταν αὐτὸν ἔχῃ Τάρταροσ ἠερόεισ. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 1386-1389575)

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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