κράτος [ᾰ],
Ionic dialect and Epic dialect κάρτος, εος, τό, both in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus; _Aeolic dialect_ ] Refs 8th c.BC+] κρέτος [[ 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 25 ] Refs 7th c.BC+]:— strength, might, in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus] Refs 8th c.BC+] especially of bodily strength, [[ ἔπεφνε δόλῳ, οὔ τι κράτεΐ γε 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.142; ἔχει ἥβης ἄνθος, ὅ τε κ. ἐστὶ μέγιστον 13.484 ] Refs 8th c.BC+], etc.; τὸ γὰρ αὖτε σιδήρου γε κ. ἐστίν this (i.e. τὸ βάψαι) is what gives strength to iron, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.393: generally, δικαία γλῶσσ᾽ ἔχει κ. μέγα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “fragment” 80; μηχανῆς ἔστω κ. Aeschylus Tragicus [{4-5th c.BC}] “Supplices” 207 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; κατὰ κράτος with all one's might or strength, [[ πολιορκεῖσθαι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.64; πολεμεῖν Plato Philosophus [{5-6th c.BC}] “Leges” 692d; ἐξελέγχεσθαι 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 34.20 ] Refs 6th c.BC+], etc.: frequently in phrase αἱρεῖν κατὰ κ. take by storm, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.100, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.119, etc.; also ἀνὰ κράτος διώκειν Xenophon Historicus [{5-6th c.BC}] “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.4.23; ἐλαύνειν [prev\. author] “An.” 1.8.1, etc.; ἀπὸ κράτους 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 17.34 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; πρὸς ἰσχύος κράτος, opposed to λόγῳ, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ph.” 594. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 personified, K. [[ Βία τε Aeschylus Tragicus [{4-5th c.BC}] “Prometheus Vinctus” 12; K. καὶ Δίκη [prev\. author] “Ch.” 244 ] Refs 5th c.BC+].
__II power, τοῦ γὰρ κ. ἐστὶ μέγιστον, of Zeus, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.118, etc.; τοῦ γὰρ κ. ἔστ᾽ ἐνὶ οἴκῳ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.359, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.214; Ζηνὸς κ. 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 6.96, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Pr.” 527 (Lyric poetry); ἐκπίπτειν κράτους, of Zeus, [prev. work] 948; τὸ κ. τοῦ θεοῦ Vetus Testamentum Graece redditum LXX.Psa.61(62).11 ] LXX+8th c.BC+], etc.: plural, [[ ὑποχείριος κράτεσιν ἀρσένων Aeschylus Tragicus [{4-5th c.BC}] “Supplices” 393 (Lyric poetry), compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ant.” 485 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; especially of political power, rule, sovereignty, [[ ὁ μαιόμενος τὸ μέγα κρέτος ὀντρέψει τάχα τὰν πόλιν Alcaeus Lyricus [{7-6th c.BC}] [same place]; τὸ κ. περιθεῖναί τινι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.129; ἐς τὸ πλῆθος φέρειν τὸ κ. [prev\. author] 3.81 ] Refs 7th c.BC+]; τὸ πᾶν κ. ἔχειν to be all-powerful, [[ [prev\. author] 7.3; ἀρχὴ καὶ κ. τυραννικόν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 373 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; βασιλεὺς πρῶτος ἐν κράτει Ὀδρυσῶν ἐγένετο in real power, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.29; later τὸ κ. τῶν Ῥωμαίων “POxy.” 41i2 (3rd-4th c.AD): in _plural_, κράτη καὶ θρόνους 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 173, compare “OT” 586, etc.; θρόνων κράτη] Refs 5th c.BC+] sovereign power, [[ [prev\. author] “Ant.” 166. ] Refs]