Significatio vocis Atlas | Babel Free

Definitiones

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

Exempla

“… 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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