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|Definition=ή, όν, also ός, όν <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">N.</span>2.14</span>, Apollon. Cit.<span class="bibl">2</span>:—<span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[strong]], [[mighty]], in body or mind, [[ὅ τι ἦν αὐτῶν δυνατώτατον]] = [[the ablest-bodied men]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.9.31</span>; [[sound in limb]], opp. [[ἀδύνατος]], <span class="bibl">Lys.24.12</span>; [[σῶμα]] δ. πρός τι <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Oec.</span>7.23</span>; χερσὶ καὶ ψυχᾷ δ. <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">N.</span>9.39</span>; τοῖς σώμασι καὶ ταῖς ψυχαῖς <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Mem.</span>2.1.19</span>; εἴς τι <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Hp.Mi.</span>366a</span>; κατά τι ib.<span class="bibl">366d</span> (Sup.): c. acc., ibid. (Sup.); of [[ship]]s, [[fit for service]], <span class="bibl">Th.7.60</span>; of things, δυνατώτερον [[ἀδικία]] [[δικαιοσύνη]]ς = [[injustice]] is [[strong]]er than [[justice]] <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>351a</span>; δυνατὸς [[λόγος]] a [[powerful]] [[argument]], <span class="bibl">Epicur.<span class="title">Ep.</span> 1p.31U.</span>; δυνατὸν [[προτείχισμα]] <span class="bibl">Plb.10.31.8</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> c. inf., [[able]] to [[do]], <span class="bibl">Hdt. 1.97</span>, etc.; [[λῦσαι]] δυνατός = [[mighty to loose]], <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">O.</span>10(11).9</span>; [[λέγειν]] τε καὶ [[πράσσειν]] δυνατώτατος <span class="bibl">Th.1.139</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Prt.</span>319a</span>; δυνατώτατοι καὶ τοῖς σώμασιν καὶ τοῖς χρήμασιν [[λειτουργέω|λῃτουργεῖν]] Decr. ap. <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Ath.</span>29.5</span>; ἐᾶν τοὺς δ. [[ἄρχειν]] <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Ath.</span>1.3</span>; [[ὅσονπερ]] δ. εἰμι, with inf. omitted, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Or.</span>523</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> of outward power, [[powerful]], [[influential]], <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">El.</span>219</span>; τῶν Ἑλλήνων δυνατώτατοι <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.53</span>; [[οἱ δυνατοί]] = [[the chief men of rank and influence]], <span class="bibl">Th.2.65</span>; χρήμασι δ. <span class="bibl">Id.1.13</span>, etc., cf.<span class="title">OGI</span>669.13 (i A. D.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">4</span> [[able to produce]], [[productive]], [[χώρα]] δυνατωτέρα εἰς τὴν καρπῶν [[ἔκφυσις|ἔκφυσιν]] <span class="title">Gp.</span>2.21.5. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">5</span> [[potential]], <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Metaph.</span>1048a27</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> Pass., of things, [[possible]], οὐ δύνατον γένεσθαι <span class="bibl">Sapph.<span class="title">Supp.</span>5.21</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Hdt.9.111</span>, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ag.</span>97</span> (lyr.), etc.; ὁδὸς δυνατὴ καὶ τοῖς [[ὑποζύγιον|ὑποζυγίοις]] [[πορεύεσθαι]] [[practicable]], <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">An.</span>4.1.24</span>; λόγου δ. κατανοῆσαι <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Phd.</span>90c</span>; βίον τοῖς πλείστοις κοινωνῆσαι δ. <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Pol.</span>1295a30</span>; [[κατὰ τὸ δυνατόν]] = [[as is possible]], [[as far as possible]], Lat. [[quantum fieri possit]], <span class="bibl">Pl. <span class="title">Cra.</span>422d</span>, <span class="bibl">D.3.6</span>, etc.; ἐς τὸ δυνατόν <span class="bibl">Hdt.3.24</span>; εἰς ὅσον ἀνθρώπῳ δ. μάλιστα <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Phdr.</span>277a</span>; ἐκ τῶν δυνατῶν <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">An.</span>4.2.23</span>; ἐπὶ τὸ δυνατόν <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Cyn.</span> 5.8</span>; ἐν δυνατῷ εἶναι <span class="title">BCH</span>29.172 (Delos, ii B. C.); also ὅσον δυνατόν <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">IA</span>997</span>; ὅσον καθ' ἡμᾶς δυνατόν <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ba.</span>183</span>; esp. with Sup., ὡς δυνατὸν πλεῖστον <span class="bibl">Isoc.12.278</span>; ὡς δ. κακίστους <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Mem.</span>4.5.5</span>; [[γνώμη]] ὡς δ. δικαιοτάτη <span class="bibl">D.24.13</span>; [[τὰ δυνατά]] = [[things which are practicable]], <span class="bibl">Th.5.89</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Arist. <span class="title">Rh.</span>1359b1</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> Adv. [[δυνατῶς]] = [[strongly]], [[powerfully]], εἰπεῖν [[δυνατῶς]] <span class="bibl">Aeschin. 2.48</span>: Sup. [[δυνατώτατα]] = [[most ably]], <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>516d</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[δυνατόν ἔχει]] = [[it is possible]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.7.11</span>.</span>