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Τάρταρον (Tartaron)

Τάρταρον is an Ancient Greek form of Τάρταρος, meaning “Tartaros — a son of Aether and Ge, and by his mother Ge the father of the Gigantes, Typhoeus and Echidna”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 48 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.10.112: … καὶ ἔστιν ἡμῶν εἰς αὐτόν· Κρόνε Διόδωρε, τίς σε δαιμόνων κακῇ ἀθυμίῃ ξυνείρυσεν, ἵνʼ αὐτὸς αὑτὸν ἐμβάλῃς εἰς Τάρταρον Στίλπωνος οὐ λύσας ἔπη αἰνιγματώδη; τοιγὰρ εὑρέθης Κρόνος ἔξωθε τοῦ ῥῶ κάππα τε. Τῶν δʼ ἀπʼ Εὐκλείδου ἐστὶ κα …

Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride 57: δόξειε δʼ ἂν ἴσως καὶ Ἡσίοδος τὰ πρῶτα πάντα Χάος καὶ Γῆν καὶ τάρταρον καὶ Ἔρωτα ποιῶν οὐχ ἑτέρας λαμβάνειν ἀρχάς, ἀλλὰ ταύτας· εἴγε δὴ τῶν ὀνομάτων τῇ μὲν Ἴσιδι τὸ τῆς Γῆς, τῷ δʼ …

Aeschylus, Eumenides 72: σκότον νέμονται Τάρταρόν θʼ ὑπὸ χθονός,

All forms of Τάρταρος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.