Ἑλλάς: Difference between revisions

|Definition=άδος, ἡ, <span class="title">[[Hellas]]</span>, said to have been originally the name of the region round Dodona, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Mete.</span>352a34</span>, Sch.<span class="bibl">Il.21.194</span>. <span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> a city of Thessaly, founded by [[Hellen]], οἵ τ' εἶχον Φθίην ἠδ' Ἑλλάδα <span class="bibl">Il.2.683</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> [[part of Phthiotis]], inhabited by the [[Μυρμιδόνες]], <span class="bibl">9.395</span>, al. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">4</span> [[Northern Greece]], opp. Peloponnesus, <span class="bibl">D.19.303</span>, <span class="bibl">Ptol.<span class="title">Geog.</span> 3.14.1</span>: sts. so expld. in the phrase καθ' Ἑλλάδα καὶ μέσον Ἄργος <span class="bibl">Od.1.344</span>,<span class="bibl">4.726</span>,al. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">5</span> <span class="title">Greece</span>, from Peloponnesus to Epirus and Thessaly inclusively, <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Op.</span>653</span>, <span class="bibl">Hdt.8.44</span>,<span class="bibl">47</span>, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pers.</span>50</span> (anap.), <span class="bibl">234</span> (troch.): used collectively for [[Ἕλληνες]], <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Or.</span>648</span>, <span class="bibl">Th.1.6</span>, etc. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">6</span> as a general name for all lands inhabited by [[Hellenes]], including [[Ionia]], etc., <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.92</span>, <span class="bibl">Th.1.3</span>, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">An.</span>6.5.23</span>, etc.; οὔθ' Ἑ. οὔτ' ἄγλωσσος <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Tr.</span>1060</span>: hence ἡ [[ἀρχαία Ἑλλάς]] = [[Old Greece]], <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Tim.</span>37</span>; ἡ [[μεγάλη Ἑλλάς]] = [[Magna Graecia]], <span class="bibl">Plb.2.39.1</span>, <span class="bibl">Ath.12.523e</span>; including [[Sicily]], <span class="bibl">Str.6.1.2</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">7</span> Ἑλλάδος Ἑ., Ἀθῆναι <span class="title">AP</span>7.45 (Thuc.): pl., τὴν Ἑ. Ἑλλάσι πολλαῖς παραυξήσας <span class="bibl">Ph.2.567</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">8</span> (sc. [[φωνή]]) the [[Greek]] [[language]], <span class="bibl">Ael.<span class="title">VH</span>9.16</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> fem.Adj. <span class="title">Greek</span>, γλῶσσα <span class="bibl">Hdt.6.98</span>, al.; πόλις <span class="bibl">Id.5.93</span>; χθών <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Supp.</span>243</span>; στολή <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ph.</span>223</span>, etc.; masc., <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Fr.</span> 17</span>; <b class="b3">τίς Ἑλλὰς ἢ βάρβαρος ἢ τῶν προπάροιθ' εὐγενετᾶν ἕτερος ἔτλα κακῶν τοσῶνδ᾿ αἵματος ἁμερίου τοιάδ' ἄχεα φανερά;</b> = <b class="b2">what woman Greek or foreign or what other scion of ancient nobility has endured of mortal bloodshed’s woes so many, such manifest pains?</b>; <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Ph.</span>1509</span>.</span>