στενός,
Ionic dialect στεινός, ή, όν, Aeolic dialect στένος [[ 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus “Supp.” 34 (uncertain reading)] Refs 7th c.BC+]:— narrow, opposed to εὐρύς, πλατύς, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.8 (_superlative_), 4.195, +others] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ψαλίς [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 367; δίαυλος 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 435; ἐσβολή 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.175 (_comparative_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πόρος[[ [prev. work] 176; ἡ ἔσοδος 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.51; οὔτ᾽ εὐρεῖα οὔτε στενὴ διαφυγή 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 737a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν στενῷ, Ionic dialect στεινῷ, in a narrow space, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 413, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.60 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]. ; ποιεῖν τὸν δῆμον εὐρὺν καὶ σ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 720; σ. ποδεών 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.31; ἔντερον 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 161 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πόροι, φλέβες, [[ 5th-4th c.BC: Timaeus Locrus Philosophus 101a, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 66a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κεφαλή, πόδες, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 5.30. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 substantive, τὰ σ. the narrows, straits, of a pass, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.223 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of a sea, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.86, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of the straits of Gibraltar, [[ 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 3.5.5 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]; so τὸ σ. the strait [[(from Hellespont), 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “DMar.” 9.1; ἐπὶ σ. τῆς ὁδοῦ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 7.1.29 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also ἡ στενή a narrow strip of land, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.99 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰ σ. passes, defiles, [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.334 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus ] Refs 5th c.BC+]