Ταίναρος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ἡ, <span class="title">Taenarus</span>, a promontory at the southern end of Laconia, <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">P.</span>4.44</span>, <span class="bibl">174</span>; also masc. or neut., <span class="bibl">Th.1.128</span>, <span class="bibl">133</span>, <span class="bibl">7.19</span>; <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> Ταίναρον ἠνεμόεντα <span class="bibl">Orph.<span class="title">A.</span>1370</span>: neut. Ταίναρον, τό, <span class="bibl">Str.8.5.1</span>: in most passages the word occurs in an obl. case without an Adj., so that the gender is undetermined, as in <span class="bibl"><span class="title">h.Ap.</span>412</span>, <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.23</span>,<span class="bibl">24</span>, <span class="bibl">Th. 1.133</span>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ra.</span>187</span>, etc.; Ποσειδῶν οὑπὶ Ταινάρῳ θεός <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ach.</span>510</span>; <b class="b3">πύλη τις ἐστὶ</b> (sc. of the infernal regions) Ταινάρου πρὸς ἐσχάτοις <span class="bibl">Men.842</span>, cf. Str. [[l.c.]]:—Adj. Ταινάριος, α, ον, Ταιναρίην ὑπὸ χθόνα <span class="bibl">A.R.1.102</span>; [[epithet]] of Artemis, <span class="bibl">Euph.9.11</span>; Τ. [[λίθος]], v. [[λίθος]] <span class="bibl">11.1</span>: neut. pl. Ταινάρια, τά, festival of Poseidon at Taenarus, Hsch. (<b class="b3">-ίας</b> cod.): hence Ταινάριοι, οἱ, [[celebrants of this festival]], IG5(1).211.1:—also Ταιναρίζω, [[celebrate this festival]], St.Byz. [[sub verbo|s.v.]] [[Ταίναρος]], and Ταιναρισταί, οἱ, = [[Ταινάριοι]], Hsch.</span>