Crossword-Solution: ATAS 4 letters, 18 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 4

They come into the country of the Gēatas to Heardrēd (2380), but whether with friendly or hostile intent is not stated; but, according to 2203 f., we are to presume that they came against Heardrēd with designs of conquest.

Hrefna-wudu, 2926, or Hrefnes-holt, 2936, the thicket near which the Swedish king, Ongenþēow, slew Hæðcyn, king of the Gēatas, in battle.

They probably receive their name from the word _atas_ which signifies "those up above" or "the dwellers in the uplands." It does not appear that they form a single tribe, or that they are even of uniform type.

And Maître Tubal, who was the first licentiate at Paris, told me that it is not everything to run a pace, but to set forth well betimes: so doth not the total welfare of our humanity depend upon perpetual drinking _atas_, _atas_, like ducks, but on drinking well in the morning; whence the verse---- "'To rise betimes is no good hour, To drink betimes is better sure.'" After he had thoroughly broken his fast, he went to church; and they carried for him, in a great basket, a huge breviary.

BUCKTON, in which he quotes the following conclusion of a passage in Sophocles: "[Greek: Hotôi phrenas] [Greek: Theos agei pros atan;] [Greek: Prassein d' oligoston chronon ektos atas.]" This, [Greek: petrôi stathmên harmozôn], he translates,-- "Whose mind the God leads to destruction; _but that he_ (_the God_) practises this a short time without destroying such an one." But for the Italics it might have been an oversight: they would seem to imply he has some authority for his translation.