Hylas

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Λεύσσετε, Θήβης οἱ κοιρανίδαι τὴν βασιλειδᾶν μούνην λοιπήν, οἷα πρὸς οἵων ἀνδρῶν πάσχω → See, you leaders of Thebes, what sorts of things I, its last princess, suffer at the hands of such men

Sophocles, Antigone, 940-942

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

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Ὕλας, -ου, ὁ.

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

Hylas: ae, m., = Ὕλας,
I a beautiful youth of Œchalia (or Argos), companion of Hercules in the Argonautic expedition, who was carried off by the nymphs, and long sought for by Hercules in vain, Prop. 1, 20, 6; Ov. A. A. 2, 110; Juv. 1, 164; Val. Fl. 3, 596; Hyg. Fab. 14; Verg. E. 6, 44 (where, by poet. license, the voc. is scanned Hylā, Hȳl', like the Gr. Ἆρες, Ἄρες, Mart. 9, 11, 15).