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αὐστηρός , ά, όν, (αὕω)
A.harsh, rough, bitter, “ὕδωρ” Pl.Phlb.61c, cf. Ti.65d; οἶνος αὐ., opp. γλυκύς, Hp.Acut.52, Fract.29, Arist.Pr.872b35, 934a34; “ὀσμή” Id.de An.421a30; of country, rugged, “τόποι” OGI 168.57 (i B.C.): metaph., harsh, crabbed, “ποιητής” Pl.R.398a (Comp.); severe, unadorned, “ἡ πραγματεία ἔχει αὐ. τι” Plb.9.1.2, cf. D.H.Dem. 47; “γυμνάδος αὐστηρὸν . . πόνον” severe, Epigr.Gr.201. Adv. “-ρῶς, κατεσκευάσθαι” D.H.Dem.43.
b. in moral sense, rigorous, austere, Arist.EE1240a2; “τοῖς βίοις” Plb.4.20.7 (Sup.), cf. Phld.Hom.p.23 O. (Comp.); “αὐ. καὶ αὐθάδης” D.H.6.27, cf. Stoic.3.162, Vett. Val.75.11; strict, exacting, Ev.Luc.19.21, PTeb.315.19 (ii A. D.); αὐστηρότερον, τό, excessive rigour, BGU140.18 (ii A. D.). Adv. “-ρῶς” Satyr.Vit.Eur. Fr.39 iv 19: Comp. “-ότερον” LXX 2 Ma.14.30.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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    • Plato, Republic, 398a
    • Plato, Philebus, 61c
    • Plato, Timaeus, 65d
    • Polybius, Histories, 4.20.7
    • Polybius, Histories, 9.1.2
    • Hippocrates, De fracturis, 29
    • Old Testament, 2 Maccabees, 14.30
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 6.27
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, 43
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, 47
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