Meaning of Atlas | Babel Free

Definitions

1. a mountain in the Atlas Mountain Range in the former Kingdom of Mauretania, said to support the heavens
   declension-3
2. the Titan Atlas
   Greek, declension-3

Examples

“… iamque volāns apicem et latera ardua cernit / Ātlantis dūrī, caelum quī vertice fulcit; / Ātlantis, cīnctum adsiduē cui nūbibus ātrīs / pīniferum caput et ventō pulsātur et imbrī, / nix umerōs īnfūsa tegit; tum flūmina mentō / praecipitant senis, et glaciē riget horrida barba.”

… And now as he flies, [Mercury] sees the peak and steep sides of Atlas the enduring, whose top props up the sky; of Atlas, whose pine-clad head is ever girt with dark clouds, and battered by wind and rain, [and] his shoulders laden with fallen snow; [then,] further on, rivers pour down his aged chin, and his bristly beard is stiff with ice. (This personification blends aspects of both the Titan and the mountain; see also: epanalepsis.)

“"tempus, Atla, veniet, tua quo spoliabitur auro”

"Atlas, the time will come when your tree will be spoiled of its gold, and he who gets the glory of this spoil will be Jove's son."

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