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ᾍδης (Hades)

ᾍδης means “Hades (god of the dead; the underworld)”.

Ancient Greek word, found 603 times in the texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Homer, Iliad 5.395: τλῆ δʼ Ἀΐδης ἐν τοῖσι πελώριος ὠκὺν ὀϊστόν,

Homer, Odyssey 4.834: ἦ ἤδη τέθνηκε καὶ εἰν Ἀίδαο δόμοισι.

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

All forms of ᾍδης (declension)

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.