κραταιός: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ά, όν, poet. form of [[κρατερός]], [[strong]], [[mighty]], μοῖρα κραταιή <span class="bibl">Il.16.334</span>, etc.; of men, <span class="bibl">Od.15.242</span>, <span class="bibl">18.382</span>, <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">N.</span>4.25</span>, <span class="bibl">B.17.18</span>; of a lion, κραταιοῦ θηρὸς ὑφ' ὁρμῆς <span class="bibl">Il.11.119</span>; ἔγχος <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">P.</span>6.34</span>; <b class="b3">κ. ἔπος</b> word [[of power]], ib.<span class="bibl">2.81</span>; σθένος κ. <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span>428</span> (lyr.); κ. μετὰ χερσίν <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ph.</span>1110</span> (lyr.); κραταιᾶς χειρός <span class="bibl">E. <span class="title">HF</span>964</span>; κραταιῷ… βραχίονι <span class="title">Trag.Adesp.</span>416; ἔχει χεῖρα κραταιάν <span class="bibl">Cratin.Jun.8.4</span> (hex.); χεῖρα κραταιοτέρην <span class="title">AP</span>11.324 (Autom.); [[fierce]], <b class="b3">κ. καύματος ὥρᾳ</b> Poet. ap. Callistr. ap.<span class="bibl">Ath.3.125c</span>: freq. in later Prose, <b class="b3">κ. λίθος</b> [[hard]] stone, <span class="bibl">Ph.<span class="title">Bel.</span>80.22</span>, <span class="title">Supp.Epigr.</span>2.829 (Damascus, iii A. D.); <b class="b3">ἐν χειρὶ κ</b>. with a [[mighty]] hand, <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">Ex.</span>13.3</span>, al.; κ. ἀγών <span class="bibl">Plb.2.69.8</span>; τόξα κ. <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Crass.</span>24</span>; ἐπὶ τὸ κ. <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Anach.</span>28</span>: Comp., <span class="bibl">Ph.1.14</span>: Sup., <span class="bibl">Id.2.383</span>; especially in magical and mystical writings, ἐν φωτὶ κ. καὶ ἀφθάρτῳ <span class="title">PMag.Lond.</span> 121.563; <b class="b3">θεοὶ κ</b>. ib.422; <b class="b3">οἱ κ</b>. the [[Mighty Ones]], lamb.<span class="title">Myst.</span>8.4, <span class="bibl">Dam. <span class="title">Pr.</span>351</span>: Astrol., <b class="b3">κ. ἡγεμόνες</b>, divinities presiding over certain periods of the month, Porph. ap. <span class="bibl">Eus.<span class="title">PE</span>3.4</span>; [[ἀστέρες]], [[ζῴδιον]], <span class="title">Cat.Cod.Astr.</span> 8(4).227; also <b class="b3">ὁ κ. [μηνὸς Φαρμοῦθι</b>] <span class="bibl"><span class="title">POxy.</span>465 i 12</span> (ii A. D.): c. gen., [[ruling over]], ὦ τῶν πάντων ζώντων τε καὶ τεθνηκότων κραταιοί PMag. Leid.V. <span class="bibl">7.8</span>; <b class="b3">ὁ μέγιστος κ. θεὸς Σοκνοπαῖος</b> Wilcken <span class="title">Chr.</span>122.1 (i A. D.). Adv. -ῶς <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">Jd.</span>8.1</span>, <span class="bibl">Ph.1.276</span>, Pap.in <span class="title">Arch.f.Religionswiss.</span>18.259 (iii A. D.).