Ἑλλάς: Difference between revisions

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