atlantes
Americannoun
noun
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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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The room had a heavy paneled ceiling of dark wood, with a cartouche in each panel; stacks of seventeenth-century armor stood in the corners, half a dozen large Aubusson tapestries hung on the walls, and a vast fireplace, flanked by huge Atlantes and crowned by a heavy pediment, broken and curled, almost filled one whole side.
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According to the tradition, these African Amazons, an army of powerful women, under the leadership of their Queen Myrina, marched against the Gorgons and Atlantes and subdued them, and at last marched through Egypt and Arabia and founded their capital on Lake Tritonis, where they were finally annihilated by Hercules.
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