4.4.1
Logeion
Perseus analyses of ἀθανάτοισιν:
ἀθάνατος (undying, immortal): masc/neut dat pl (epic ionic aeolic)
ἀθάνατος (undying, immortal): masc/fem/neut dat pl (epic ionic aeolic)
LSJ entry
ἀθᾰ/νᾰτος
ἀθάνατος
,
ον
,
also
η
,
ον
(so
regularly
in
sense
Ι.1,
poet.
and
Isoc. 9.16
):—
A.
undying,
immortal
,
Hom.
,
etc.;
ἀ.
πρόσωπον
,
of
Aphrodite,
Sapph.
1.14:—
hence
ἀθάνατοι,
οἱ
,
the
Immortals
,
Hom.
,
Pi. Pae. 6.50
,
etc.;
ἀθάναται
ἅλιαι
,
i.e.
the
sea
goddesses
,
Od. 24.47
:
Comp.
-ώτερος
Pl. Phd. 99c
.
2.
of
immortal
fame
,
Tyrt. 12.322
.
II.
of
things,
etc.,
everlasting,
perpetual
,
ἀ.
κακόν
Od. 12.118
;
χάρις
Hdt. 7.178
;
ἀρετή,
ἀρχά
,
S. Ph. 1420
,
OT 905
(lyr.);
κλέος,
μνήμη
,
B. 12.65
,
Lys. 2.81
;
συκοφάντης
Hyp. Lyc. 2
;
ἀ.
ὁ
θάνατος
‘death
that
cannot
die
’,
Amph.
8
;
of
Nisus’
purple
locks,
ἀ.
θρίξ
on
which
life
depended
,
A. Ch. 619
.
III.
οἱ
ἀ.
the
immortals
,
a
body
of
Persian
troops
in
which
vacancies
were
filled
up
by
successors
already
appointed,
Hdt. 7.83
,
211
;
so
ἀ.
ἀνήρ
one
whose
successor
in
case
of
death
is
appointed
(as
we
say,
the
king
never
dies
),
ib.
31
;
of
a
standing
army,
D.C. 52.27
.
2.
maintained
at
a
constant
figure
,
πρόβατα
PSI 4.377.5
(iii
B.
C.)
,
PThead. 30.6
(iii
A.
D.)
;
αἶγες
PStrassb. 30.6
(iii
A.
D.)
;
διὰ
τὸ
ἀθάνατον
(sc.
τὸ
παιδίον
)
αὐτὴν
ἐπιδεδέχθαι
τροφεύειν
BGU 1106.25
(Aug.).
IV.
=
λυχνὶς
στεφανωματική,
Ps.-
Dsc.
3.100.
V.
Adv.
ἀθανάτως,
εὕδειν
AP
9.570
(Philod.).
[
ᾱθ-
always
in
the
Adj.
and
all
derivs.,
v.
sub
ἀ-
1
fin.]