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ἀδάμ-ας , αντος, ὁ, (δαμάω):—first in Hes. (in Hom. only as pr. n.), properly,
A.unconquerable:
I. Subst., adamant, i. e. the hardest metal, prob. steel, χλωρός, πολιός, Hes.Sc.231, Th.161: metaph., “ἀδάμαντος ἔχον κρατερόφρονα θυμόν” Op. 147; of anything fixed, unalterable, ἔπος ἐρέω ἀδάμαντι πελάσσας Orac. ap. Hdt.7.141; ἀδάμαντος δῆσεν ἅλοις fixed them with nails of adamant, i. e. inevitably, Pi.P. 4.71, cf. APl.4.167 (Antip. Sid.); “τὸν ἐν Ἅιδα κινήσαις ἀδάμαντα” Theoc.2.34.
2. diamond, Thphr.Lap.19, Paus.8.18.6, Peripl. M.Rubr.56; prob. so meant in Pl.Ti.59b, Plt.303e, cf. Plin.HN37.55.
3. metaph., ὁ πόνος ἀδ άμαντος, of love, Alex.245.13.
II. Adj., unbreakable, “ἀνακτίτης” Orph.L.192.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (8):
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.141
    • Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, 231
    • Hesiod, Theogony, 161
    • Hesiod, Works and Days, 147
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 8.18.6
    • Plato, Statesman, 303e
    • Plato, Timaeus, 59b
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 37.55
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