a. [trans. Gr. ὑποταρτάριος: see SUB- 1 a and TARTAREAN a.1, TARTARIAN a.2] Being or living under Tartarus.
1676. Hobbes, Iliad, XIV. (1686), 211. Then Juno, as she was required sware By all the Subtartarian Gods.
1718. Pope, Iliad, XIV. 314. The queen … from the infernal bowers Invokes the sable subtartarean powers.
1794. T. Taylor, Pausanias’ Descr. Greece, III. 280. Some [of the mundane gods] are … subtartarean.
1820. Blackw. Mag., VII. 358.
| In solemn strain | |
| By name invoking from the realms below | |
| The subtartarean gods, the Titan train. |
So Subtartarus’d a.
1856. S. R. Maitland, False Worship, 36. It was the place of the Titans; of those whom Hesiod calls ‘Subtartarus’d Titans,’ τιτῆνές θ᾽ ὑποταρτάριοι.
