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Τιτάν

titan · ὁ

the Titans

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Where it lives

Theogony 18 · 26.14/10k
Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
Ion 1 · 1.09/10k
Phoenissae 1 · 1.04/10k
Oedipus at Colonus 1 · 0.97/10k
Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

Τῑτάν · Titan — LSJ

the Titans

the Titans, Il. 14.279, h.Ap. 335, Hes. Th. 630, al., Cratin. in PSI 11. 1212.11, 19, etc.; Τ. Προμηθεύς S. OC 56, E. Ph. 1122; of Atlas, dub. in A. Pr. 427 (lyr.); of the Sun-god, Emp. 38, cf. Ezek. Exag. 217, Orph. A. 512; of Apollo, IG 12(5).893.1 (Tenos, dub. l.), 9(1).882.4 (Corc.), Schwyzer 649.8 (Balbilla).

τιτάν· παιδεραστής, Hsch.

III comet, the Strivers

a kind of comet, Heph.Astr. 1.24 (Lyd. Ost. p.169). (Derived by Hes. Th. 207 sqq. partly from τιταίνω (the Strivers), partly from the root of τίσις (Οὐρανὸς . . φάσκε δὲ τιταίνοντας ἀτασθαλίῃ μέγα ῥέξαι ἔργον, τοῖο δʼ ἔπειτα τίσιν μετόπισθεν ἔσεσθαι); the latter derivation also in Orph. Fr. 57, Plu. Es. carn. 1 2.996c, Hsch., in modified form. Perh. really connected with τίταξ = βασιλεύς, and τιτήνη = βασιλίς in Hsch.)

In the wild

Τιτᾶνας · Titanas Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 201–207
Τιτᾶνι · Titani Euripides, Ion 1 (DIORISIS sentence 302)
Τιτὰν · Titan Euripides, Phoenissae *)/aggelos (DIORISIS sentence 661)
Τιτῆνας · Titēnas Theogony 207–208
Τιτῆσι · Titēsi Theogony 389–396
Τιτῆσι · Titēsi Theogony 423–425

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