A.heavy in weight, β. ἀείρεσθαι, opp. κοῦφος, Hdt.4.150, cf. Pl.Tht.152d, Arist.Cael.310b25, etc.: in Hom. mostly with collat. notion of strength and force, “χεῖρα βαρεῖαν” Il.1.219, cf. 89; “ἀκμᾷ βαρύς” Pi.I.4(3).51; “β. τὸ σῶμα” App.Mac.14; of athletes, Philostr.Gym.31; ὀφρύς bushy, ib.48; but also, heavy with age, infirmity or suffering, “νόσῳ” S.Tr.235; “σὺν γήρᾳ” Id.OT17; “ἐν γήρᾳ” Id.Aj.1017; “ὑπὸ γήρως” Ael.VH9.1; “ὑπὸ τῆς μέθης” Plu.2.596a; pregnant, PGoodsp.Cair.15.15 (iv A. D.); “β. βάσις” heavy, slow, S.Tr.966; “τυπάδι βαρείᾳ” Id.Fr.844. Adv. “κοῦφον βαρέως” Pl.Tht.189d.
2. heavy to bear, grievous, ἄτη, ἔρις, κακότης, Il.2.111, 20.55, 10.72; “Κλῶθες” Od.7.197; “κῆρες” Il.21.548; “β. κὴρ τὸ μὴ πιθέσθαι” A.Ag.206 (lyr.); βαρὺ or βαρέα στενάχειν sob heavily, Od.8.95,534, Il.8.334, etc.: in Trag. and Prose, burdensome, grievous, oppressive, β. ξυμφορά, τύχαι, καταλλαγαί, etc., A.Pers.1044 (lyr.), Th.332 (lyr.), 767 (lyr.), etc.; “ἡδονή” S.OC1204; “ἀγγελία β. ἢν ἐν τοῖς βαρύτατ᾽ ἂν ἐνέγκαιμι” Pl.Cri.43c; “πόλεμος” D.18.241; “βαρὺ κοὐχὶ δίκαιον” Id.21.66; “νόσος” causing disgust, S.Ph.1330; αὐδά, ἠχώ, ib.208 (lyr.), E.Hipp.791; unwholesome, “χωρίον” X.Mem.3.6.12; “πλησμονή” Id.Cyn.7.4; indigestible, Ath.3.115e; “β. νότος” Paus.10.17.11. Adv. -έως, φέρειν τι take a thing ill, suffer it impatiently, Hdt.5.19; “β. φέρειν ἐπί τινι” Plb.15.1.1 (but β. φέρειν bear with dignity, D.S.26.3); β. ἔχειν, c. part, Arist. Rh.Al. 1424b5; “πρός τι” Id.Pol.1311b9; τοῖς λογίοις Arg.E.Heracl.: Comp. “βαρυτέρως τινὶ ἐναντιωθῆναι” LXX3 Ma.3.1; βαρέως ἀκούειν hear with disgust, X.An.2.1.9.
4. weighty, grave, “ἐπιστολαί” 2 Ep.Cor.10.10; “αἰτιώματα” Act.Ap.25.7; “τὰ βαρύτερα τοῦ νόμου” Ev.Matt.23.23; ample, “βαρυτάτην εὐδαιμονίαν τοῖς ἀρχομένοις παρέξειν” Hdn.2.14.3.
II. of persons, severe, stern, “β. ἐπιτιμητής” A. Pr.77; “εὔθυνος” Id.Pers.828, cf. S.OT546; “Κύπρι βαρεῖα” Theoc.1.100; wearisome, troublesome, E.Supp.894, Pl.Tht.210c, etc.; “ξύνοικος” A. Supp.415, S.Fr.753; “γείτονες” Plb.1.10.6.
2. overbearing, “σεμνότεροι ἢ βαρύτεροι” Arist.Rh.1391a27 (but “σεμνὸς καὶ β.” Str.14.1.42); “ὑπερήφανοι καὶ β.” Plu.2.279c; important, powerful, “πόλις” Plb.1.17.5, etc.
3. of soldiers, heavy-armed, X.Cyr.5.3.37 (s.v.l.); of the “ὁπλίτης” Pl.Lg.833b (Comp.); “τὰ β. τῶν ὅπλων” Plb.1.76.3.
III. of impressions on the senses,
1. of sound, strong, deep, bass, opp. to ὀξύς, Od.9.257, S.Ph.208, Pl.Prt.332c, Arist.EN1125a14, etc.; “βαρὺ ἀμβόασον” A.Pers. 572 (lyr.); “φθέγγονται βαρύτατον ἀνθρώπων” Hp.Aër.15; βαρύτατα ὑπακούειν, of diseases, Id.Prorrh.2.39; “πενθεῖν” Ael.VH12.1; esp. of musical pitch, low, opp. “ὀξύς, βαρυτάτη χορδή” Pl.Phdr.268e; ἆχος, φωνά, Archyt. I, cf. Arist.EE1235a28, Aristox.Harm.p.3 M.; of accent, grave, “ἀντὶ ὀξείας τῆς μέσης συλλαβῆς βαρεῖαν ἐφθεγξάμεθα” Pl. Cra.399b; “ὀξείᾳ καὶ βαρείᾳ καὶ μέσῃ φωνῇ” Arist.Rh.1403b30, etc.: hence ἡ βαρεῖα (sc. προσῳδία) accentus gravis, D.T.630.1, etc.; “β. τάσις” D.H.Comp.11, A.D.Synt.307.13; “β. τόνος” D.T.674.13, cf.A.D.Pron. 36.5; “β. συλλαβή” unaccented, Id.Synt.100.8, al. Adv. “βαρέως” with the accent thrown back, Id.Pron.51.1, Ath.2.53b: Comp.-ύτερον, opp. ὀξύτερον （ου) opp. οὗ), Arist.SE178a3 (but, on a lower note, “αὐλεῖν” Id.GA 788a22).
2. of smell, strong, offensive, Hdt.6.119.
3. Adv. βαρέως slowly, “ἐπισπᾶσθαι” Hero Aut.26.6. (guṛr-u- from gu[rmacr ]ṛ-u-, Skt. gurús 'heavy', Lat. gravis (from fem. gur[schwa]wī-), Goth. kaúrus 'heavy'.)
