- σθένος
- σθένος, εος, τό,A strength, might, esp. bodily strength, freq. in Il., less freq. in Od.;
κάρτεΐ τε σθένεΐ τε Il.17.329
; ἀλκῆς καὶ σθένεος ib. 499;χερσίν τε ποσίν τε καὶ σθένει 20.361
; ποδῶν χειρῶν τε ς. Pi.N.10.48; opp. φρήν, ib.1.26;γνῶμαι πλέον κρατοῦσιν ἢ σθένος χερῶν S.Fr. 939
: c.inf., ἐν δὲ σ. ὦρσεν ἑκάστῳ . . πολεμίζειν strength to war, Il.2.451;σ. ποιεῖν εὖ φερέγγυον A.Eu.87
;σ. ὥστε καθελεῖν E.Supp.66
(lyr.): less freq. of the force of things, as of a stream, Il.17.751;σ. ἀελίου Pi.P.4.144
; [ἄρουραι] σθένος ἔμαρψαν Id.N.6.11
: σθένει by force, S.OC 842 (lyr.), E.Ba.953; λόγῳ τε καὶ σθένει both by right and might, S. OC68;ὑπὸ σθένους E.Ba.1127
; παντὶ σθένει with all one's might, freq. in treaties, SIG122.6, al., Foed. ap. Th.5.23, Pl.Lg.646a—the only phrase in which early prose writers use the word (cf. infr. 111); found in LXX, Jb.4.10, al.2 later, generally, strength, might, power, moral as well as physical,ἀνάγκης A.Pr.105
;τῆς ἀληθείας S.OT369
; ἀγγέλων ς. their might or authority, A.Ch.849: c. gen. obj., ἀγωνίας ς. strength for conflict, Pi.P.5.113 (s.v.l., -ίαις Bgk.); εἰ σ. λάβοιμι if I should gain strength enough, S.El.333, cf. 348, etc.II a force of men, Il.18.274; ἐπελθὼν οὐκ ἐλάσσονι ς. S.Aj.438: but in both places sense 1.1 is more prob.2 metaph., quantity, profusion,σ. πλούτου Pi.I.3.2
; ὕδατος, νιφετοῦ, Id.O.9.51, Fr.107.11.III periphr., like βίη, ἴς, μένος, σ. Ἰδομενῆος, Ὠρίωνος, Ὠαρίωνος, etc., for Idomeneus, Orion, etc. themselves, Il.13.248, 18.486, Hes.Op.598, etc.; σ. ἵππων, ἵππιον, Id.Sc.97, Pi.P.2.12, etc.:—in Pl. Phdr.267c, Χαλκηδονίου ς. is ironical.
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