atlantes

[ at-lan-teez ]

noun

1. plural of atlas ( def 5 ).

atlantes

/ ətˈlæntiːz /

noun

1. the plural of atlas

Example Sentences

In Latin blazon they are termed Talamones and Atlantes, and in French supports or tenans.

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Atlantes, at-lan′tēz, n.pl. figures of men used instead of columns.

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His learned society were designated as “the Atlantes of the mathematical world;” but that world had other inhabitants, antiquaries and astrologers, chemists and naturalists.

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Diodorus Siculus and Plato are not cited by Azurara, who, however, relates that Atlas was king of the West of Europe and of the West of Africa; but he forgets to say that he reigned over the Atlantes, as Herodotus says, and confounds Prometheus with "Japhet," whose son he was, viz., according to Apollodorus, Diodorus Siculus, and all the ancient writers.

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The oasis, ten days' journey beyond the Garamantes, inhabited by the Atarantes or Atlantes, may be the Herodotean conception of Tibesti.

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