Χθονία

Meaning [one which is] shadowy. In the tenth [book] of Republic [Plato writes]: "that he will not travel an underground and harsh [path], but an easy and heavenly one."¹ For he uses "easy" to correspond with "harsh", and [to correspond] with "underground" [he uses] "heavenly." Meaning bright. And in Alcman, when he says in reference to strife that it is an "underground monster",² certain people took this to mean hateful, but some to mean large; since he is speaking to her [i.e. strife].