στιβαρός
ἅτε γὰρ ἐννάλιον πόνον ἐχοίσας βαθύν σκευᾶς ἑτέρας, ἀβάπτιστος εἶμι φελλὸς ὣς ὑπὲρ ἕρκος ἅλμας → for just as when the rest of the tackle labors in the depths of the sea, like a cork I shall go undipped over the surface of the brine | as when the other part of the tackle is laboring deep in the sea, I go unsoaked like a cork above the surface of the sea
English (LSJ)
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A strong, stout, sturdy, freq. in Hom. and Hes., of men's limbs, ὦμος, αὐχήν, βραχίονες, Il.5.400, 18.415, Od.18.69; χείρ 8.189; μέλεα Hes.Sc.76; πλευραί Pi.Fr.111; of weapons, ἔγχος, σάκος, Il.5.746, 3.335, etc.; δίσκος -ώτερος more massy, Od. 8.187; later, of persons, σ. τις καὶ καρτερά Ar.Th.639; σ. τὸ σῶμα J.BJ6.2.8; σ. τῇ γλώσσῃ LXX Ez.3.6; μοῖρα σ. Epigr. ap. Paus.10.12.6; εὐεπίη (of Aeschylus) AP7.39 (Antip.Thess.); ἀπειλά Hymm.Is. 170; λέξις D.H.Th.24, cf. Comp.22; -ώτερος λόγος a bulkier book, Sor.1.2; γυμνάσια -ώτερα, -ώτατα, more (most) violent, Antyll. ap. Orib.6.21.4, 6.35.2. Adv., πύλαι . . πύκα -ρῶς ἀραρυῖαι gates close shut, Il.12.454; βαρύνων τὸν κλοιὸν σ. LXX Hb.2.6; φρόντιζε σ. M.Ant.2.5. (Prob. cogn. with στείβω.)
