Ἰαπετός
κράτιστοι δ᾽ ἂν τὴν ψυχὴν δικαίως κριθεῖεν οἱ τά τε δεινὰ καὶ ἡδέα σαφέστατα γιγνώσκοντες καὶ διὰ ταῦτα μὴ ἀποτρεπόμενοι ἐκ τῶν κινδύνων → the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it | and they are most rightly reputed valiant who, though they perfectly apprehend both what is dangerous and what is easy, are never the more thereby diverted from adventuring
French (Bailly abrégé)
οῦ (ὁ) :
Iapétos (Japet) père de Prométhée et d’Épiméthée.
Étymologie:.
Russian (Dvoretsky)
Ἰᾰπετός: (ῑ) ὁ Иапет (один из Титанов, сын Урана и Геи, отец Атланта, Прометея, Эпиметея и Менэтия; как отец Прометея, считался родоначальником человечества) Hom., Hes.: πρεσβύτερος Ἰαπετοῦ погов. Luc. старше (самого) Иапета; Ἰαπετὸν καλεῖν τινα Arph. называть кого-л. Иапетом, т. е. дряхлым стариком.
Frisk Etymological English
Grammatical information: m.
Meaning: Iapetos (Il.)
Other forms: Ί- metr. lengthened.
Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]
Etymology: The name was connected with the biblical Japheth; thus recently M.L. West, Hes. Th. 134. The idea seems most improbable for a god thrown in Tartaros by Zeus. The name is often connected with ἰάπτω as "the one thrown off" (Θ 479, Hes. On the formation Schwyzer 502, Fraenkel Nom. ag. 1, 51 n. 1) with Ίαπετιονίδης (Hes.; Solmsen Unt. 58). The interpretation seems improbable to me (rather a mere guess). It seems obvious that the name, of a pre-Olympian god, is Pre-Greek. A suffix -ετος is found in Pre-Greek, Beekes, Pre-Greek, Suffixes nr. 42; Furnée 155 n. 2 mentions a demon ῎Ασβετός (which he compares with ῎Ασπετος ὁ Α᾽χιλλεὺς ἐν Η᾽πείρῳ H.); it is also found in GN, cf. Ταύγετον, Ταλετόν.
