ἐγκρατής: Difference between revisions

|txtha=([[see]] ἐν, III:3), ἐγκρατες ([[κράτος]]);<br /><b class="num">1.</b> [[properly]], equivalent to ὁ ἐν [[κράτει]] ὤν, [[strong]], [[robust]]: [[Aeschylus]], [[Thucydides]], and [[following]].<br /><b class="num">2.</b> having [[power]] [[over]], [[possessed]] of (a [[thing]]), [[with]] a genitive of the [[object]]; so from ([[Sophocles]] and) [[Herodotus]] [[down]].<br /><b class="num">3.</b> mastering, controlling, curbing, restraining: ἀφροδισιων, [[Xenophon]], [[mere]]. 1,2, 1; ἠδωνης, ibid. 4,5, 10; [[ἑαυτοῦ]], [[Plato]]; [[absolutely]] ([[without]] a genitive), controlling [[oneself]], [[temperate]], [[continent]], ([[Aristotle]], eth. Nic. 7,4, p. 1146{b}, 10ff); [[Philo]] de Jos. § 11): [[Titus]] 1:8.