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Headword:
*ta/rtaros
Adler number: tau,135
Translated headword: Tartaros, Tartarus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The lower place of the underworld. And Tartarus is also what they call the place amongst the clouds. [Thus in] On the soul.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the phrase] 'Tartarean pit'.[2]
Greek Original:*ta/rtaros: o( katw/teros tou= a(/|dou to/pos. kai\ *ta/rtaron, to\n peri\ ta\ ne/fh to/pon ou(/tw le/gousi. *peri\ yuxh=s. kai\ *tarta/reios bo/qros.
Notes:
See
Homer,
Iliad 8.13ff, and generally OCD(4) s.v. Tartarus; cf. under
epsilon 2921,
epsilon 3709,
pi 1709,
sigma 645,
sigma 759,
chi 84.
[1] i.e.
Plato,
Phaedo 112A (web address 1).
[2] Presumably quoted from somewhere, but unidentifiable. (Lucian has 'Tartarean deep',
ba/qos.)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; epic; geography; mythology; philosophy; religion
Translated by: David Whitehead on 13 May 2004@11:08:13.
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