"Unready" does not mean unprepared but injudicious (from Anglo-Saxon raed, "wisdom, counsel").
Athe'na (Pallas) once meant "the air," but in Homer this goddess is the representative of civic prudence and military skill; the armed protectress of states and cities. The Romans called her Minerva.
Athe'nian Bee, Plato, so called from, the honeyed sweetness of his composition. It is said that a bee settled on his lip while he was an infant asleep in his cradle, and indicated that "honeyed words" would fall from his lips, and flow from his pen. Sophoclês is called "The Attic Bee."
Ath'liot, the most wretched of all women.
Her comfort is (if for her any be),
That none can show more cause of grief than she.
Wm. Browne,
Britannia's Pastorals
, ii. 5 (1613).
Ath'os. Dinoc'ratês, a sculptor, proposed to Alexander to hew mount Athos into a statue representing the great conqueror, with a city in his left hand, and a basin in his right to receive all the waters which flowed from the mountain. Alexander greatly approved of the suggestion, but objected to the locality.