HADES

(Gr. a6nc; also aiinc, which is said to be dc rived from a and tdio, I see; invisible.) In Cla ical My thology, the abode of the dead. According to Hesiod the mortals of the brazen age were the first who descended to Hades. (See especially the 11th book of the Ody ey; He Mod,Di ertation i'pya naion 'Hue pat the latter; JEneid,; Heyne,bookExcursusvi.; War burton's8, nd loc.; Spence's Poly mel is, Dial. 1G.) ilades was also an nppella tion of tke god Pluto; in Which sense alone, it is said, Hesiod uses It. [s. 555]