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Οὔτοι συνέχθειν, ἀλλὰ συμφιλεῖν ἔφυν → I was not born to hate, but to love.

Sophocles, Antigone, 523
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Transliteration A: stryphnótēs Transliteration B: stryphnotēs Transliteration C: stryfnotis Beta Code: strufno/ths

English (LSJ)

ητος, ἡ,

   A rough, harsh taste, sourness, Arist.Cat.9a30, Pr.864b5: pl., Diocl.Fr.138, Gal.6.465.    II metaph., harshness of style, prob. in D.H.Dem.34 (στριφνότης (q.v.) codd.); περὶ τὸ ἦθος Plu.Mar.2.

German (Pape)

[Seite 957] ητος, ἡ, zusammenziender, herber, saurer Geschmack, Theophr. u. Plut.; u. übertr., sauertöpfisches, mürrisches Wesen, Plut. Mar. 2; aber στρ. τῆς λέξεως ist = das durchdringende, D. Hal. de Dem. vi 34.