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Ἀίδαο (Aidao)

Ἀίδαο is an Ancient Greek form of ᾍδης, meaning “Hades (god of the dead; the underworld)”. It is the genitive singular masculine noun.

Found 73 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.353: ἔνθα μὲν εἰς Ἀίδαο καταιβάτις ἐστὶ κέλευθος,

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 5.1.8: σοῖς δὲ πόθοις Ἀχιλεὺς Αἴας τʼ Ἀΐδαο δόμους ἦλθον· σᾶς δʼ ἕνεκεν φιλίου μορφᾶς καὶ Ἀταρνέος ἔντροφος ἀελίου χήρωσεν αὐγάς. τοιγὰρ ἀοίδιμος ἔργοις, …

Greek Anthology, Greek Anthology, Ἀνθολογία, Volume II 7.112.3: τὴν οὕτως ἀίδαο μακρὴν ὁδὸν εἰ πρὶν ὁ ποσσὶν

All forms of ᾍδης (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.