Τάρταρος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ὁ, also ἡ <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">P.</span>1.15</span>, <span class="bibl">Nic.<span class="title">Th.</span>203</span>: heterocl. pl. <b class="b3">Τάρταρα, τά</b>, <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Th.</span>119</span>,<span class="bibl">841</span>, etc. (sg. <b class="b3">Τάρταρον, τό</b>, St.Byz., Sch.<span class="bibl">Il.1.312</span>):—<span class="title">Tartarus</span>, <span class="bibl">Il.8.13</span>,<span class="bibl">481</span>, <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Th.</span>807</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">h.Ap.</span>336</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">h.Merc.</span>256</span>,<span class="bibl">374</span>, etc. (never in Od.); later, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[the nether world]] generally, <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Sc.</span>255</span>; <b class="b3">ἀπέραντος, κελαινός</b>, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span>154</span> (lyr.), <span class="bibl">1051</span> (anap.); <b class="b3">Ταρτάρου μελαμβαθὴς κευθμών</b> ib.<span class="bibl">221</span>; σκότον νέμονται Τάρταρόν θ' ὑπὸ χθονός <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Eu.</span> 72</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">LXX<span class="title">Jb.</span>40.15</span>, <span class="bibl">41.23</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> personified as husband of Gaia and father of Typhoeus, <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Th.</span>822</span>; <b class="b3">ὦ Γᾶς παῖ καὶ Ταρτάρου</b>, of Cerberus, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OC</span>1574</span> (lyr.).</span>