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|mdlsjtxt=[[κράτος]]<br />to be [[strong]], [[mighty]], [[powerful]]: [[hence]],<br /><b class="num">I.</b> absol. to [[rule]], [[hold]] [[sway]], be [[sovereign]], Hom., Trag.; ἡ κρατοῦσα the [[lady]] of the [[house]], Aesch.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> c. dat. to [[rule]] [[among]], κρατέεις νεκύεσσιν Od.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> c. gen. to be [[lord]] or [[master]] of, [[ruler]] [[over]], πάντων Hom.; δωμάτων Aesch., etc.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> to [[conquer]], [[prevail]], get the [[upper]] [[hand]], Hdt., [[attic]]; κρ. γνώμηι to [[prevail]] in [[opinion]], Hdt.; τῆι μάχηι Eur., etc.;—also c. acc. cogn., κρ. τὸν ἀγῶνα Dem.:— οἱ κρατοῦντες the conquerors, Xen.:—of reports, etc., to [[prevail]], [[become]] [[current]], Soph., Thuc.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> impers., κατθανεῖν [[κρατεῖ]] 'tis [[better]] to die, Aesch.; [[κρατεῖ]] [[ἀπολέσθαι]] Eur.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> c. gen. to [[prevail]] [[over]], Aesch.; ὁ [[λόγος]] τοῦ ἔργου ἐκράτει surpassed, went [[beyond]] it, Thuc.<br /><b class="num">4.</b> c. acc. to [[conquer]], [[master]], [[outdo]], [[surpass]], Pind., [[attic]]:—Pass. to be conquered, Hdt., [[attic]]<br /><b class="num">III.</b> to [[become]] [[master]] of, get [[possession]] of τῆς ἀρχῆς Hdt.; τῆς γῆς Thuc.<br /><b class="num">IV.</b> to lay [[hold]] of, τῆς χειρός NTest.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> c. acc. rei, to [[seize]], [[hold]] [[fast]], θρόνους Soph., Xen.<br /><b class="num">V.</b> to [[control]], [[command]], Aesch.