A.“Ἄτλαν” A.Pr.428 (lyr.), cf. Sch.: (ἀ-euph., and τλάς, v. Τλάω):—Atlas, Od.1.52: later, one of the Titans, Hes. Th.517, A.Pr.350,428 (lyr.); “αἱ δ᾽ ἕπτ᾽ Ἄτλαντος παῖδες” Id.Fr.312.
II. in hist. writers, Mount Atlas in West Africa, regarded as the pillar of heaven, Hdt.4.184, Str.17.3.2, etc.: pl, D.P.66.
2. the Atlantic Ocean, Id.30.
3. axis of the earth, Hsch.
III. Ἄτλαντες, in Architecture, colossal statues as supports for the entablature (cf. τελαμῶνες), Moschioap.Ath.5.208b, Vitr.6.7.6; “κείονας ἄτλαντάς τε” Epigr.Gr.1072.7.
IV. seventh of the neck-vertebrae, which supports the head, Poll.2.132.