Included with: σκληρός, ά, όν,
also Doric dialect, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 7.29, 5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus [288] ] Refs 5th c.BC+], hyperdorian mode σκλᾱρός [[ 5th-4th c.BC: Timaeus Locrus Philosophus 104c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:— hard, opposed to μαλακός in all senses:
__I hard to the touch, ξύλον σ. ἢ μαλακόν [[ 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 1194 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; ἐλαία Pi.[same place]; γῆ [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 319, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 16.11; κοίτη 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 942d, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I.2 of sound, harsh, σκληρὸν ἐβρόντησε [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 839; βρονταί 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.12; ἡ φωνὴ σκληροτέρα 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Audibilibus” 801b38, +others ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__I.3 of taste and smell, harsh, bitter, σ. ὕδατα (springing from a rocky soil) [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Aër.” 1; so σκληρότατος ἀὴρ καὶ τόπος 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 4.21.5 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of wine, dry, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 579, 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus “Alex.Praef.”; ὀσμαί 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 6.14.12 (_comparative_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]: metaphorically, σ. φράσις [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “Epistula ad Pompeium” 2. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__I.4 stiff, unyielding, opposed to ὑγρός (lithe and supple), τιτθία σ. καὶ κυδώνια [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 1199; σκληρότεροι μαστοί 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 688a27; σκέλη 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 1.6; τί τὸ ὑγρὸν τοῦ χαλινοῦ καὶ τί τὸ σ. [prev. work] 10.10 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of the hair (compare σκληρόθριξ), [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 517b11 (_comparative_), +others] Refs 4th c.BC+]; σ. δέρμα, σάρξ, [[ [prev. author] “PA” 665a2, “Phgn.” 806b22, etc. ] Refs]; of persons, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 162b, “Smp.” 196a, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Agesilaus” 13, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Salt.” 21 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of dogs, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 3.2; τράχηλος [prev. work] 5.30 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἱ τὸ σῶμα σ. [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Problemata” 873a34, +others ] Refs 4th c.BC+]