Socratos Sign in

Ἀίδας (Aidas)

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

Found 25 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Alcestis 262: βλέπων πτερωτός—αἵδας.

Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1688: Ἀΐδας ἕλοι πατρὶ ξυνθανεῖν γεραιῷ

Greek Anthology, Greek Anthology, Ἀνθολογία, Volume V 15.4.6: μνᾶμα τόδʼ ᾧ γείτων οὐρανός, οὐκ ἀίδας.

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.