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[[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 1207, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]: future -ίξω[[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ νούσων” 4.52 (variant), NT.1Pet.5.10] NT+5th c.BC+], -ίσω [[LXX.Sir.38.34, LXX.Jer.17.5, -ιῶLXX.Sir.6.37, LXX.Jer.24.6 ] LXX]: aorist ἐστήριξα [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.443 ] Refs 8th c.BC+], Epic dialect στήριξα [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 498 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; infinitive στηρίξαι [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.434, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 19.192, “PSI” 5.452.3 (4th c.AD)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; participle στηρίξας [[ 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 2.57; _optative_ στηρίξειεν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.49; ἐστήρισα LXX.Gen.27.37, 2nd c.AD: Appianus Historicus “Bella Civilia” 1.98; _imperative_ στηρισάτω “Anthologia Graeca” 14.72 ] LXX+5th c.BC+]:—middle, aorist ἐστηριξάμην [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.242, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀγμῶν” 11, etc. (see. below);] Refs 8th c.BC+] later -ισάμην [[LXX.Isa.59.16, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Eumenes” 11 ] LXX+1st c.AD+]: future στηρίξομαι [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 5.35 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]:—passive, future στηριχθήσομαι [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus “de Usu Partium” 9.16 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]: aorist ἐστηρίχθην [[ 7th c.BC: Tyrtaeus Elegiacus 11.22, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ τῶν ἐν κεφαλη—ͅ τρωμάτων” 3, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 15.126] Refs 7th c.BC+]: perfect ἐστήριγμαι [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 779, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ νούσων” 3.3, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; infinitive ἐστηρίσθαι [[ LXX.1Ki.26.19 ] LXX]: pluperfect ἐστήρικτο [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.111, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 218, etc. (Cf. στῆριγξ, σκηρίπτομαι)] Refs 8th c.BC+]:—make fast, prop, fix, [ἴριδας] ἐν νέφεϊ στήριξε sets rainbows in the cloud, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.28; οὐρανῷ ἐστήριξε κάρη, of Eris, 4.443 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; στηρίζειν αὐτὸ αὑτό φησι τὸ ἄπειρον (i.e. Anaxagoras) [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Physica” 205b2, compare 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 2.61; σ. σήματ᾽ ἐν οὐρανῷ 4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 10 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; so probably, [λίθον] Ζεὺς στήριξε κατὰ χθονός he set the stone fast in the ground, [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 498; βάσιν ἐστήριξαν 2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “fragment” 74.49; λίθον διορίζοντα ὅρους.. στηριχθῆναι ἐκέλευσαν “OGI” 769 (Palestine, 3rd-4th c.AD). ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__2 support, σίτῳ τινά [[ LXX.Gen.27.37 ] LXX]; feed up a patient, [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 19.192; σ. τὴν δύναμιν εὐστομάχοις τροφαῖς [prev. author] 18(2).34, compare 2nd c.AD: Aretaeus Medicus “ὀξέων νούσων θεραπευτικόν” 1.1 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]: metaphorically, confirm, establish, τὴν ἀρχήν [[ 2nd c.AD: Appianus Historicus “Bella Civilia” 1.98; τοὺς ἀδελφούς NT.Luke.22.32, cf. NT.2Thes.2.17, NT.1Pet.5.10 ] NT+2nd c.AD+]; corroborate, [[ 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 2.57. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__3 middle, ground, establish for oneself, κόσμον ἑαῖς στηρίξατο βουλαῖς [[ 5th-6th c.AD: Orphica “Fragmenta” 299; πόδα ἐπὶ γαίης “Anthologia Graeca” 14.72 ] Refs 5th c.AD+]; πόντος στηρίξατο κῦμα νήνεμον settled its wave into a calm, [[[prev. work]9.271 (1st c.AD: Apollonides Epigrammaticus). ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__B passive and middle, to be firmly set or fixed, stand fast, οὐδὲ πόδεσσιν εἶχε στηρίξασθαι he could not get a firm footing, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.242, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Eumenes” 11; οὐδαμῇ ἐστήρικτο 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 218 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; [δώματα] κίοσιν ἀργυρέοισι πρὸς οὐρανὸν ἐστήρικται the house is lifted up to heaven on pillars, [[ [prev. author] “Th.” 779; ὀρθὴ δ᾽ ἐς ὀρθὸν αἰθέρ᾽ ἐστηρίζετο 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 1073; στηριχθεὶς ἐπὶ γῆς 7th c.BC: Tyrtaeus Elegiacus 11.22; πρὸς τῇ γῇ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 376b23 (assuming variant)] Refs 7th c.BC+]; ὅσοι ἐστηρίξαντο τῇ πτέρνῃ ἰσχυρῶς πηδήσαντες light heavily on it, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀγμῶν” 11, compare “Art.” 86 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὕβον, ἐφ᾽ οὗ ἐστήρικται τὸ ἄλλο σῶμα is steadied, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 499a17 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἐστηριγμένα [ἔχειν] τὰ σπλάγχνα supported, opposed to κρεμάμενα, [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 15.570] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; ἄμπελος κάμακι σ. [[“Anthologia Graeca” 7.731 (1st c.AD: Leonidas Alexandrinus Epigrammaticus); Ἀσκληπιὸν -ιζόμενον βάκτρῳ “IG” 42(1).88.9 (Epid., 2nd c.AD) ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; of the fixed stars, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 230, 274, etc.] Refs 4th c.BC+]; opposed to ἀκοντίζεσθαι, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Mundo” 395b4; λίθος ἐστήρικται 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Apollinem” 23 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; χάσμα μέγα ἐστ. [[ NT.Luke.16.26 ] NT]; of places, merely to be situated, [[ 2nd c.AD: Dionysius Periegeta 204. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__B.2 metaphorically, κακὸν κακῷ ἐστήρικτο evil was set upon evil, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.111 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; τί τοι χόλος ἐστήρικτα; [[ 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 4.816 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; δέκατος μεὶς οὐρανῷ ἐστήρικτο the tenth month was set in heaven, [[ “hymnus ad Mercurium” 11 ] Refs]; of a person, ὅπου.. στηρίζει ποτέ wheresoever thou art tarrying, art settled, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 194 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὅροι ἐστηριγμένοι fixed principles, [[ 2nd-1st c.BC(?): Hero Mechanicus ] Refs 2nd c.BC+] “*Geometry texts” 3.25; ἀνάγκη στηριχθῆναι τὸ ν ¯ must be firmly pronounced, [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 22. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__B.3 of diseases,[[= below 11.2, μέχρις ἂν [οἱ νοσοποιοὶ χυμοὶ] ἔν τινι τῶν ἀσθενεστέρων στηριχθῶσιν 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 15.126, compare 789,855, 2nd c.AD: Aretaeus Medicus “περὶ αἰτιῶν καὶ σημείων ὀξέων παθῶν” 1.5. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__B.II active intransitive in same sense, οὐδέ πῃ εἶχον.. στηρίξαι ποσὶν ἔμπεδον.. [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.434 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; κῦμ᾽ οὐρανῷ στηρίζον a wave rising up to heaven, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 1207: _metaphorically_, οὐρανῷ στηρίζον.. κλέος [prev. author] “Ba.” 972 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πρὸς οὐρανὸν καὶ γαῖαν ἐστήριξε φῶς[[ [prev. work] 1083, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Sulla” 6. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__B.II.2 of diseases, fix, settle, determine to a particular part, ὁπότε εἰς τὴν καρδίαν στηρίξειεν (i.e. ἡ νόσος) [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.49; ἐνταῦθα σ. ἡ νοῦσος 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἀφορισμοί” 4.33; εἰ.. ἐς τὸ ὀστέον στηρίξειε τὸ βέλος [prev. author] “VC” 12; compare στήριξις 2. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.II.3 of planetary phases, pause, stand still, [[ 1st c.BC: Geminus Astronomicus 12.23, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.76d, Theo Sm.p.147 H., 2nd c.AD: Ptolemaeus Mathematicus “Tetrabiblos” 75, 2nd c.AD: Vettius Valens Astrologus 183.1, 4th c.AD: Paulus Alexandrinus Astrologus “G.” 2. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__B.II.4 metaphorically, ἐπὶ δόγματος σ. hold fast to an opinion, [[ 3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 2.136. ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]
