Ἅιδης
or ᾅδης, ου, ὁ, Attic dialect; Epic dialect Ἀΐδης, α and ε; Doric dialect Αΐδας, α, used by Trag., in Lyric poetryand anapaest meter: genitive Αϊδος, dative Αϊδι, [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, Trag., see below: (perhaps ἀ- _privative_, ἰδεῖν):—in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+] only as proper name [[ “Hades”, Ζεὺς καὶ ἐγώ, τρίτατος δ᾽ Αΐδης 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.188, compare 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 455:] Refs 8th c.BC+] —εἰν᾽ Αΐδαο δόμοισι in the nether world, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.834] Refs 8th c.BC+]; frequently εἰν, εἰς Αΐδαο (i.e. δόμοις, δόμους), as [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.389, 21.48; εἰν Ἄϊδος Il 24.593] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Trag. and Attic dialect ἐν Ἅιδου, εἰς Ἅιδου (i.e. οἴκῳ, οἶκον), [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 865, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 69, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Ἄϊδόσδε, adverb to the nether world, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.330, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; παρ᾽ Ἅιδῃ, παρ᾽ Ἅιδην, [[ “OT” 972, “OC” 1552:] Refs] —hence,
__2 place of departed spirits, first in [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.244 εἰσόκεν αὐτὸς.. Ἄϊδι κεύθωμα; ἐπὶ τὸν ᾅδην 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Cat.” 14; εἰς ἀΐδην “Anthologia Graeca” 11.23; ἐν τῷ ᾅδῃ NT.Luke.16.23. ] NT+8th c.BC+]
__II after [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+], the grave, death, ἀΐδαν λαγχάνειν, δέξασθαι, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 5.96, “I.” 6(5).15] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ᾅδης πόντιος death by sea, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 667, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 13, “Hipp.” 1047] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ᾅδου πύλη, Astrology texts, region below the Horoscope, [[ 2nd c.AD: Vettius Valens Astrologus 179.13. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]