Τάρτᾰρ-ος, ὁ,
also ἡ [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 1.15, 2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Theriaca” 203: irregular _plural_ Τάρταρα, τά, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 119, 841, etc. (_sing._ Τάρταρον, τό, 5th c.AD(?): Stephanus Byzantius, Scholia 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.312):— “Tartarus”, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.13, 481, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 807, “hymnus ad Apollinem” 336, “hymnus ad Mercurium” 256, 374, etc. (never in 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey”)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; later, the nether world generally, [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 255 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἀπέραντος, κελαινός, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 154 (Lyric poetry), 1051 (_anapaest meter_)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; Ταρτάρου μελαμβαθὴς κευθμών[[ [prev. work] 221; σκότον νέμονται Τάρταρόν θ᾽ ὑπὸ χθονός [prev. author] “Eu.” 72, cf. LXX.Job.40.15, 41.23. ] LXX]
__II personified as husband of Gaia and father of Typhoeus, [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 822 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὦ Γᾶς παῖ καὶ Ταρτάρου, of Cerberus, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1574 (Lyric poetry). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]