στενός: Difference between revisions

|Definition=Ion. στεινός, ή, όν, Aeol. στένος Alc.<span class="title">Supp.</span>34 (dub. l.):— <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[narrow]], opp. <b class="b3">εὐρύς, πλατύς</b>, <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.8</span> (Sup.), <span class="bibl">4.195</span>, al.; ψαλίς <span class="bibl">S. <span class="title">Fr.</span>367</span>; δίαυλος <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Tr.</span>435</span>; ἐσβολή <span class="bibl">Hdt.7.175</span> (Comp.); <b class="b3">πόρος</b> ib. <span class="bibl">176</span>; ἡ ἔσοδος <span class="bibl">Th.7.51</span>; οὔτ' εὐρεῖα οὔτε στενὴ διαφυγή <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>737a</span>; <b class="b3">ἐν στενῷ</b>, Ion. <b class="b3">στεινῷ</b>, in <b class="b2">a narrow space</b>, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pers.</span>413</span>, <span class="bibl">Hdt.8.60</span>. <b class="b3">β; ποιεῖν τὸν δῆμον εὐρὺν καὶ σ</b>. <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Eq.</span>720</span>; σ. ποδεών <span class="bibl">Hdt.8.31</span>; ἔντερον <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Nu.</span>161</span>; <b class="b3">πόροι, φλέβες</b>, <span class="bibl">Ti.Locr.101a</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Ti.</span>66a</span>; <b class="b3">κεφαλή, πόδες</b>, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyn.</span>5.30</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> Subst., <b class="b3">τὰ σ</b>. the [[narrows]], [[straits]], of a pass, <span class="bibl">Hdt.7.223</span>; of a sea, <span class="bibl">Th.2.86</span>, etc.; of the [[straits]] of Gibraltar, <span class="bibl">Str.3.5.5</span>; so <b class="b3">τὸ σ</b>. the [[strait]] (Hellespont), <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">DMar.</span>9.1</span>; ἐπὶ σ. τῆς ὁδοῦ <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">HG</span>7.1.29</span>; also <b class="b3">ἡ στενή</b> <b class="b2">a narrow strip</b> of land, <span class="bibl">Th.2.99</span>; <b class="b3">τὰ σ</b>. [[passes]], [[defiles]], Phld.<span class="title">Rh.</span>1.334 S. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> metaph., [[close]], [[confined]], <b class="b3">ἀπειληθέντες ἐς στεινόν</b> driven into <b class="b2">a corner</b>, <span class="bibl">Hdt.9.34</span>; σ. ζῶμεν χρόνον <span class="bibl">Men.410</span>; εἰς στενὸν κομιδῇ τὰ τῆς τροφῆς τινι καταστήσεται <span class="bibl">D.1.22</span>; εἰς σ. τοῦ καιροῦ φθείρεσθαι <span class="bibl">Alciphr.1.24</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> [[scanty]], [[petty]], <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Grg.</span>497c</span>; ὑποθέσεις <span class="bibl">Plb.7.7.6</span>; ἐλπίδες <span class="bibl">D.H.4.52</span>; ἐρωτήσεις <span class="bibl">Philostr.<span class="title">VS</span>2.30</span>; <b class="b2">small-minded, narrow-minded</b>, in Adv. Comp., <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PGiss.</span>40 ii7</span> (iii A.D.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> of sound and style, [[thin]], [[meagre]], <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Aud.</span>803b24</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Rh.</span>1413b15</span>; [[hard]] to pronounce, συλλαβὴ σ. καὶ δύστομος <span class="bibl">Phld.<span class="title">Po.</span>2.15</span>.—<span class="bibl">Choerob. <span class="title">in Theod.</span>2.76</span> H., <span class="bibl"><span class="title">EM</span> 275.50</span> say that <b class="b3">στενός</b>, like [[κενός]], forms the Comp. and Sup. <b class="b3">στενότερος, στενότατος</b>, and these forms are explainable from <b class="b3">*στενϝότερος, *στενϝότατος</b>, which are implied by the Ionic forms <b class="b3">στεινότερος, -ότατος</b> (<b class="b3">στεινότερος</b> occurs in <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.181</span>, <span class="bibl">7.175</span>, στενότερος in <span class="title">IG</span>7.3073.109 (Lebad., ii B.C.), <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Phd.</span>111d</span>, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>2.4.3</span> with v.l.); and <b class="b3">στενοτάτου</b> is required by the metre in <span class="bibl">Scymn.922</span>; the form <b class="b3">στενώτερος</b> is however found in <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">VM</span>22</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">PA</span>675a35</span>, al. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">III</span> Adv., <b class="b3">στενῶς διακεῖσθαι</b> to be <b class="b2">in difficulties</b>, PCair.Zen.498 (iii B.C.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PTeb.</span> 760.19</span> (iii B.C.), <span class="bibl">D.L.8.86</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">1 Ki.</span>13.6</span>.</span>