σῐδήρ-εος, α,
Ionic dialect and Epic dialect η, ον, Attic dialect contraction σιδηροῦς, ᾶ, οῦν [[ “SIG” 144.14, etc.] Refs]; Epic dialect also σιδήρειος, η, ον, see below; also late, [[ “Stud.Pal.” 20.217.9 (6th c.AD)] Refs 6th c.AD+] (feminine -ειος[[ 9th c.AD: Theognostus Grammaticus “Can.” 56)] Refs 9th c.AD+]; Doric dialect σιδάρεος [ᾱ] [[ “IG” 42(1).103.114 (Epid., 4th c.BC)] Refs 4th c.BC+], and see below 11, also σιδάριος [[ “SIG” 246 ii 67 (Delph., 4th c.BC)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; Aeolic dialect σιδάριος [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 29.24 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]:—made of iron or steel, ἄξων [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.723; σιδηρείη κορύνη 7.141; πύλαι 8.15; ὑποκρητηρίδιον 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.25; σκύταλον 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 17.31 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; χεὶρ σ. grappling-iron, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.25, 7.62: also σ. ὀρυμαγδός] Refs 5th c.BC+], i.e. the clang of arms, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.424 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; σ. οὐρανός the iron sky, the firmament, which the ancients held to be of metal, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.329 (compare χάλκεος)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; σ. γένος, of the [[ “Iron” age, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 176. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__2 metaphorically, ἦ γὰρ σοί γε σ. ἐν φρεσὶ θυμός a soul of iron, i.e. hard, stubborn as iron, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.357, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 23.172; οὐδέ μοι.. θυμὸς ἐνὶ στήθεσσι σ., ἀλλ᾽ ἐλεήμων 5.191; οὐδ᾽ εἴ οἱ κραδίη γε σ. ἔνδοθεν ἦεν 4.293; σιδήρειόν νύ τοι ἦτορ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.205, 521 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἦ ῥά νυ σοί γε σ. πάντα τέτυκται thou art iron all! [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.280 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; πυρὸς μένος.. σ. the iron force of fire, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.177 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of Heracles, the ironsided, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 8 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of men, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 491; σὰρξ σ. 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 22.47 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὦ σιδήρεοι O ye ironhearted! [[ 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.166; εἰ μὴ σιδηροῦς ἐστιν, οἴομαι ἔννουν γεγονέναι 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 10.20; σ. λόγοι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 509a. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]