A.strong, mighty, “μοῖρα κραταιή” Il.16.334, etc.; of men, Od.15.242, 18.382, Pi.N.4.25, B.17.18; of a lion, “κραταιοῦ θηρὸς ὑφ᾽ ὁρμῆς” Il.11.119; “ἔγχος” Pi.P.6.34; κ. ἔπος word of power, ib.2.81; “σθένος κ.” A.Pr.428 (lyr.); “κ. μετὰ χερσίν” S.Ph.1110 (lyr.); “κραταιᾶς χειρός” E. HF964; “κραταιῷ . . βραχίονι” Trag.Adesp.416; “ἔχει χεῖρα κραταιάν” Cratin.Jun.8.4 (hex.); “χεῖρα κραταιοτέρην” AP11.324 (Autom.); fierce, κ. καύματος ὥρᾳ Poet. ap. Callistr. ap.Ath.3.125c: freq. in later Prose, κ. λίθος hard stone, Ph.Bel.80.22, Supp.Epigr.2.829 (Damascus, iii A. D.); ἐν χειρὶ κ. with a mighty hand, LXX Ex.13.3, al.; “κ. ἀγών” Plb.2.69.8; “τόξα κ.” Plu.Crass.24; “ἐπὶ τὸ κ.” Luc.Anach.28: Comp., Ph.1.14: Sup., Id.2.383; esp. in magical and mystical writings, “ἐν φωτὶ κ. καὶ ἀφθάρτῳ” PMag.Lond. 121.563; θεοὶ κ. ib.422; οἱ κ. the Mighty Ones, lamb.Myst.8.4, Dam. Pr.351: Astrol., κ. ἡγεμόνες, divinities presiding over certain periods of the month, Porph. ap. Eus.PE3.4; ἀστέρες, ζῴδιον, Cat.Cod.Astr. 8(4).227; also ὁ κ. [μηνὸς Φαρμοῦθι] POxy.465 i 12 (ii A. D.): c. gen., ruling over, “ὦ τῶν πάντων ζώντων τε καὶ τεθνηκότων κραταιοί” PMag. Leid.V. 7.8; ὁ μέγιστος κ. θεὸς Σοκνοπαῖος Wilcken Chr.122.1 (i A. D.). Adv. -ῶς LXX Jd.8.1, Ph.1.276, Pap.in Arch.f.Religionswiss.18.259 (iii A. D.).
κρα^ται-ός , ά, όν, poet. form of κρατερός,