κραταιίς
ὦ δυσπάλαιστον γῆρας, ὡς μισῶ σ' ἔχων, μισῶ δ' ὅσοι χρῄζουσιν ἐκτείνειν βίον, βρωτοῖσι καὶ ποτοῖσι καὶ μαγεύμασι παρεκτρέποντες ὀχετὸν ὥστε μὴ θανεῖν: οὓς χρῆν, ἐπειδὰν μηδὲν ὠφελῶσι γῆν, θανόντας ἔρρειν κἀκποδὼν εἶναι νέοις → Old age, resistless foe, how do I loathe your presence! Them too I loathe, whoever desire to lengthen out the span of life, seeking to turn the tide of death aside by food and drink and magic spells; those whom death should take away to leave the young their place, when they no more can benefit the world
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.
