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Ἑλλάς

Ἑλλάς, Ἑλλάς, Hellas, Greece

Ἑλλάς, 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 τʼ εἶχον Φθίην ἠδʼ 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 καθʼ 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.; οὔθʼ Ἑ. οὔτʼ 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 AP 7.45 (Thuc.): pl., τὴν Ἑ. Ἑλλάσι πολλαῖς παραυξήσας Ph. 2.567.
      • 8 (sc. φωνή) the Greek language, Ael. VH 9.16.
    • 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 προπάροιθʼ εὐγενετᾶν ἕτερος . . ; E. Ph. 1509.

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