A.ruler, lord, master, Ep. word, used in Il. mostly of kings and chiefs, esp. of Agamemnon, 1.130, al. (Com. in parody, of Diomedes, Cratin.68); of gods, ὕπατε κρειόντων, of Zeus, Il.8.31, etc.; of Poseidon, “εὐρὺ κ. ἐνοσίχθων” 11.751; as an honorary epithet, κ. Ἐτεωνεύς, of a squire of Menelaus, Od.4.22:—so fem. κρείουσα (once in Hom.), κρείουσα γυναικῶν, of a concubine of Priam, Il.22.48; Ἀντιόπη κ. queen Antiope, Hes.Fr.110.6, cf. Call. Del.219; Dor. “κρείοισα” Theoc.17.132:—after Hom. in the form κρέων , Pi.P.8.99, N.3.10, 7.45; of Zeus, A.Supp.574 (lyr.):—fem. κρέουσα , B.3.1: hence pr. n. Κρέων, Κρέουσα. (A participial form (“κρείειν γὰρ τὸ ἄρχειν ἔλεγον οἱ παλαιοί” Artem.2.12): κρείων may be due to metrical lengthening or represent Κρήων.)
κρείων , οντος, ὁ,
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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