ἰσχῡρός, ά, όν,
(ἰσχύς) strong, especially of personal strength, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 945, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 290, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of things, ἰ. βέλος [[ 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 15.4; ῥεύματα 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.12 ] Refs 7th c.BC+]; ἰ. χθών hard, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 310 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of food, indigestible, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 50 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of taste, strong, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 7.6.1 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of armies, ἰσχυροτέρα φάλαγξ [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.1.30 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of places, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.9, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.6.11, etc.; τῆς χώρης τὸ -ότατον 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.76 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ ἑαυτοῦ ἰ., opposed to τὰ τοῖς πολεμίοις ἰ., [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitum magistro” 8.24 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰ ἰσχυρότατα your strongest points, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.111 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰ τῆς πόλεως ἰ. that in which the strength of the state lies, [[ 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.66 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ὁρῶντες οὐδὲν ἰ. ἀπὸ τῶν Λεσβίων no show of strength, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.6 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἰ. τι πρὸς τὸ πρᾶγμ᾽ ἔχειν a strong point, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Ἐπιτρέποντες” 130; -ότατον τεκμήριον “SIG” 685.84 (Crete, 2nd c.BC). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 powerful, ἄλοχος Διός [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 302; πόλις 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 447; θεός 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 946; ἰ. τὸ πολλόν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.136; οἱ ἰ. ἐν ταῖς πόλεσιν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Respublica Atheniensium” 1.14 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: comparative -ότερος, ἐς πειθώ [[ 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 51; ὁ ὀπίσω μου ἐρχόμενος -ότερός μου ἐστίν NT.Matt.3.11. ] NT+3rd c.AD+]