Hellas

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Hel·las

 (hĕl′əs)
The Greek name for Greece.
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Hellas

(ˈhɛləs)
n
(Placename) transliteration of the Ancient Greek name for Greece
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Greece

(gris)

n.
Ancient Greek, Hellas. Modern Greek, Ellas. a republic in S Europe at the S end of the Balkan Peninsula. 10,707,135; 50,147 sq. mi. (129,880 sq. km).Cap.: Athens.
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Hellas

[ˈhɛləs] nEllade f
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It would have told of a struggle for Liberty, intended to represent the conflict of Persia and Hellas. We may judge from the noble commencement of the Timaeus, from the fragment of the Critias itself, and from the third book of the Laws, in what manner Plato would have treated this high argument.
Sing the suitors some one of these, and let them drink their wine in silence, but cease this sad tale, for it breaks my sorrowful heart, and reminds me of my lost husband whom I mourn ever without ceasing, and whose name was great over all Hellas and middle Argos." {9}
646-662) If ever you turn your misguided heart to trading and with to escape from debt and joyless hunger, I will show you the measures of the loud-roaring sea, though I have no skill in sea-faring nor in ships; for never yet have I sailed by ship over the wide sea, but only to Euboea from Aulis where the Achaeans once stayed through much storm when they had gathered a great host from divine Hellas for Troy, the land of fair women.
It found its way into Hellas probably through the medium of Orphic and Pythagorean rites and mysteries.
Those again who held Pelasgic Argos, Alos, Alope, and Trachis; and those of Phthia and Hellas the land of fair women, who were called Myrmidons, Hellenes, and Achaeans; these had fifty ships, over which Achilles was in command.
His robed form seemed to hang the whole room with classic draperies; his epic gesture seemed to extend it into grander perspectives, till the little black figure of the modern cleric seemed to be a fault and an intrusion, a round, black blot upon some splendour of Hellas.
A person of childlike genius and inborn energy is still a Greek, and revives our love of the Muse of Hellas. I admire the love of nature in the Philoctetes.
Jordan joined Southampton in 1984, the same season Hellas won the Scudetto - their only major trophy.
Hellas Direct, a next-generation insurance company, has teamed up with pioneering Cyprus retailer, Superhome Center.
Hellas Sat 4, the joint Greek and Cypriot high-capacity communications satellite owned by Arabsat, was successfully launched into orbit on Tuesday, on board ArianeSpace's first launch of the year from the Spaceport in French Guiana.
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