Ἄρης
Ares
Translated by Jennifer Benedict20 Nov 2000Vetting: high14 revisions
Translation
Properly [it means] iron.
"Having plunged Ares inside [your] hollow flanks."1
It also means war. [The term comes] from the [verb]r(w= [meaning] "I speak,"2 (future r(h/sw ), [whence] r(h=s , and with the alpha privative [it is] Ares. For in war there is no need of words, but of actions. And Homer [writes]: "for the outcome of war [lies] in hands, [that] of words in counsel."3 The alpha [is] both long and short. Homer [writes]: "Ares, Ares, bane of men."4
It is declined*)/arhs *)/arou and *)/arhs *)/arhtos , and *)/arhs *)/areos . For [the nominative] is *)/arhs and mixes its declension.
"Having plunged Ares inside [your] hollow flanks."1
It also means war. [The term comes] from the [verb]
It is declined