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κρα^τύν-ω , Ep. καρτ- , (κράτος, κρατύς)
A.strengthen, “κ. τὰς Συρηκούσας” Hdt.7.156; “τὴν πόλιν” Th.1.69; “τείχη” Id.3.18; “κ. τινὰ δορυφόροισι” Hdt.1.98; κ. ἑωυτὸν τῇ τυραννίδι ib.100:—also in Med. (so only in Hom.), ἐκαρτύναντο φάλαγγας they strengthened their ranks, Il.11.215, 12.415; κρατυνάμενοι [τὴν Ἄντανδρον] Th.4.52, cf.114; “τὴν προβολήν” Plu.Aem.20; πίστεις κ. confirm their pledges, Th.3.82; “σπείραισιν ἐκαρτύναντο βοείαις χεῖρας” Theoc.22.80; “ἐκαρτ. μέλαθρον” A.R.2.1087; “οἵ μιν . . ἐκαρτ. κεραυνῷ” Id.1.510; καρτ. τὴν αἰσυμνητείην Thrasyb. ap. D.L.1.100:—Pass., wax strong, “ἔσχε τὴν βασιληΐην καὶ ἐκρατύνθη” Hdt.1.13; “τείχεσιν ἐκεκράτυντο” D.C.40.36, cf. D.H.3.72; “ἐν χρόνῳ κρατυνθὲν ἔθος” LXX Wi.14.16.
b. confirm an impression, S.E. M.8.364 (Pass.); an agreement, PLond.1.113i51 (vi A. D.).
2. harden, opp. “ἁπαλύνω, τοὺς πόδας ἀνυποδησίᾳ” X.Lac.2.3, cf. Gal.4.748 (Pass.):—Pass., ὀστέα κρατύνεται consolidate, Hp.Fract.7.
II. rule, govern, c.gen., S.OT14, E.Ba.660: c.acc., “ἄκρα κρατύνων” Emp. 100.19, cf. 73.2, A.Pers.900 codd. (lyr.); “πτόλιν” Id.Supp.699 (lyr.): c. acc. cogn., “κράτος κ.” Id.Ag.1471 (lyr.): abs., Id.Pr.150 (lyr.), 404 (lyr.); “τὰ πρῶτα μὲν δόρει κρατύνων, πρῶτα δ᾽ οἰωνῶν ὁδοῖς” S. OC1314.
2. c. gen., become master, get possession of, “τῶν ὅπλων” Id.Ph.366, cf. 1059,1161 (lyr.): c. acc., possess, “λέκτρα” Corinn. Supp.2.55; βασιληΐδα τιμὰν κ. hold, exercise, E.Hipp.1281 (lyr.), cf. A.Supp.372 (lyr.); “τὴν πολιτικὴν ἀρετήν” Him.Or.14.28.
III. καρτύνειν βέλεα ply, throw them stoutly, Pi.O.13.95; “κ. ἐνὶ χερσὶν ἐρετμά” A.R.2.332.
IV. c. acc. et inf., insist that . . , D.L.7.83, cf. Procl.Hyp.3.54.
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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