σθένος

English (LSJ)

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.