κραταιίς
Εὐφήμει, ὦ ἄνθρωπε· ἁσμενέστατα μέντοι αὐτὸ ἀπέφυγον, ὥσπερ λυττῶντά τινα καὶ ἄγριον δεσπότην ἀποδράς → Hush, man, most gladly have I escaped this thing you talk of, as if I had run away from a raging and savage beast of a master
English (LSJ)
ἡ, (κρατύς) of the stone of Sisyphus, ὅτε μέλλοι ἄκρον ὑπερβαλέειν, τότ' ἀποστρέψασκε κραταιίς when it was just about to surmount the top, then did
A mighty weight turn it back, dub. in Od.11.597 (taken as Adv., violently, by Aristarch.; as κράται' ἴς (where κράταια may be an old fem. of κρατύς like *πλάταια (cf. Skt. pṛthivī), pl. Πλαταιαί, fem. of πλατύς) by Ptol.Asc. ap. Hdn.Gr.2.153). II (proparox.) as pr.n., the Mighty one, name of the mother of Scylla, Od.12.124.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
κρᾰταιίς: ἡ, (κράτος) μόνον ἐν Ὀδ. Λ. 597, ἐπὶ τοῦ λίθου τοῦ Σισύφου, ― ὅτε μέλλοι ἄκρον ὑπερβαλέειν, τότ’ ἀποστρέψασκε κραταιὶς αὖτις, ὅτε ἔμελλε νὰ ὑπερβῇ τὴν κορυφήν, τότε ἰσχυρὸν βάρος ἢ ἀκαταμάχητος δύναμις ἔστρεφε τὸν λίθον ὀπίσω· ― λίαν ἀμφίβολος λέξις. Ὁ Ἀρίσταρχ. ἐθεώρει αὐτὴν ὡς ἐπίρρ. = κραταιῶς (ἐκλαμβάνων τὸ ἀποστρέψασκε ὡς ἀμετάβ.), ὁρμητικῶς ἐκυλίετο ὀπίσω· ἕτεροι θεωροῦσιν αὐτὸ ὡς κύρ. ὄνομα, ἴδε σημασ. ΙΙ. ΙΙ. Κρᾰταιίς, ὡς κύρ. ὄνομα, ἡ Ἰσχυρά, ὄνομα τῆς μητρὸς τῆς Σκύλλης, Ὀδ. Μ. 124.
English (Autenrieth)
overpowering force, ‘weight’ we should say, i. e. the force of gravitation, in the stone of Sisyphus, Od. 11.597.—Personified, Κραταιίς, Crataeis, the mother of Scylla, Od. 12.124.
