Damastor

Latin Alternative forms la Adamastor Etymology Borrowed from Greek, probably from la grc ἀδαμάστωρ (attested as an epithet of Hekate),Hilton John 2009 Adamastor, Gigantomachies, and the Literature of Exile in Camões' Lusíads Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association probably from the same root as la grc ἀδάμαστος indomitable, ending in the agent-noun suffix grc -τωρ. Pronunciation Damā̆stō̆r Proper noun Damā̆stō̆r/Damā̆stor<3> m la Greek mythology name of a giant la Claudian Gigantomachy c. 370-c. 404 AD quod timuit, iam totus erat; saevusque Damastor,ad depellendos iaculum cum quaereret hostes,Germani rigidum misit pro rupe cadaver. la Sidonius Apollinaris Carmina XV Epithalamium 20 5th century AD hic rotat excussum vibrans in sidera PindumEnceladus, rabido fit missilis Ossa Typhoeo;Porphyrion Pangaea rapit, Rhodopenque DamastorStrymonio cum fonte levat, veniensque superneintorto calidum restinguit flumine fulmen In one part Enceladus brandishes Pindus, torn from its base, and sends it whirling to the stars, while Ossa is the missile of frenzied Typhoeus; Porphyrion snatches up Pangaeus, Damastor lifts up Rhodope along with Strymon’s spring, and when the glowing thunderbolt comes down he hurls the river at it and quenches it. W. B. Anderson 1936 la Giuseppe Sporeni Carmina 1 2. Crucis adoratio 107 c. 1562 Fronte dolor, qualem peritura Belides urnaPorphyrionque Athamasque ferunt saevusque DamastorEt Coeo cum fratre Dymas, qualem excipit ingensSisyphus Aegeonque et opaca silentia duraePersephones atroque gementes sulphure manes. Declension Damā̆stō̆r/Damā̆stor<3> Damā̆storem/Damā̆stora References