Ἑλλάς

English (LSJ)

άδος, ἡ, Hellas, said to have been originally the name of the region round Dodona, Arist.Mete.352a34, Sch.Il.21.194.    2 a city of Thessaly, founded by Hellen, οἵ τ' εἶχον Φθίην ἠδ' Ἑλλάδα Il.2.683.    3 part of Phthiotis, inhabited by the Μυρμιδόνες, 9.395, al.    4 Northern Greece, opp. Peloponnesus, D.19.303, Ptol.Geog. 3.14.1: sts. so expld. in the phrase καθ' Ἑλλάδα καὶ μέσον Ἄργος Od.1.344,4.726,al.    5 Greece, from Peloponnesus to Epirus and Thessaly inclusively, Hes.Op.653, Hdt.8.44,47, A.Pers.50 (anap.), 234 (troch.): used collectively for Ἕλληνες, E.Or.648, Th.1.6, etc.    6 as a general name for all lands inhabited by Hellenes, including Ionia, etc., Hdt.1.92, Th.1.3, X.An.6.5.23, etc.; οὔθ' Ἑ. οὔτ' ἄγλωσσος S.Tr.1060: hence ἡ ἀρχαία Ἑ. Old Greece, Plu.Tim.37; ἡ μεγάλη Ἑ. Magna Graecia, Plb.2.39.1, Ath.12.523e; including Sicily, Str.6.1.2.    7 Ἑλλάδος Ἑ., Ἀθῆναι AP7.45 (Thuc.): pl., τὴν Ἑ. Ἑλλάσι πολλαῖς παραυξήσας Ph.2.567.    8 (sc. φωνή) the Greek language, Ael.VH9.16.    II fem.Adj. Greek, γλῶσσα Hdt.6.98, al.; πόλις Id.5.93; χθών A.Supp.243; στολή S.Ph.223, etc.; masc., Id.Fr. 17; τίς Ἑ. ἢ βάρβαρος ἢ τῶν προπάροιθ' εὐγενετᾶν ἕτερος . .; E.Ph.1509.