ATHALANTE2. Atlas was the giant of North Africa who held up the heavens on his shoulders. The Seven Pleiades were his daughters (Met VI.174-175).
The learned eagle points out the seven daughters of Atlas to the frightened poet, HF II.1007.
Athalantes, the ME genitive case, is a variant of Atlantiades, the Greek patronymic that appears in Latin. Here it is applied to Atlas himself. Intrusive h after t was not pronounced. The name occurs in medial position.