Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, σκληρός

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3. of taste and smell, harsh, bitter, ς. ὕδατα (springing from a rocky soil) Hp.Aër.1; so “σκληρότατος ἀὴρ καὶ τόπος” Plb.4.21.5; of wine, dry, Ar.Fr.579, Dsc. Alex.Praef.; “ὀσμαί” Thphr.CP6.14.12 (Comp.): metaph., “ς. φράσις” D.H.Pomp.2.

4. stiff, unyielding, opp. ὑγρός (lithe and supple), “τιτθία ς. καὶ κυδώνια” Ar.Ach.1199; “σκληρότεροι μαστοί” Arist.PA688a27; “σκέλη” X.Eq.1.6; τί τὸ ὑγρὸν τοῦ χαλινοῦ καὶ τί τὸ ς. ib.10.10; of the hair (cf. σκληρόθριξ), Arist.HA517b11 (Comp.), al.; ς. δέρμα, σάρξ, Id.PA665a2, Phgn.806b22, etc.; of persons, Pl.Tht.162b, Smp.196a, Plu.Ages.13, Luc.Salt.21; of dogs, X.Cyn.3.2; τράχηλος ib.5.30; οἱ τὸ σῶμα ς. Arist.Pr.873a34, al.

5. κοιλίη ς. costive, Hp.Aph. 3.25, cf. Arist.PA670b9.

6. of light, strong, “ἐν ς. αὐγῇ ἢ μαλακῇ” Id.Col.793b17.

7. of a wind, strong, Ep.Jac.3.4, Poll.1.110, Ael.NA9.57.

II. metaph.,

1. of things, hard, austere, “μὴ τὰ μαλακὰ μῶσο, μὴ τὰ ς. ἔχῃς” Epich. l.c.; “τροφή” S.OC1615; “δίαιται” E.Fr.525.5; “βίος” Men.522; τὰ ς. hard words, S.OC1406; “ς. συμφοραί” E.Fr.684.3; “σκληρὰ μαλθακῶς λέγων” S.OC774; τόνος ἀπηνὴς καὶ ς. Plu.Phoc.2; τὸ ς. = σκληρότης, ἡ δίαιτα . . ὑπερβάλλει ἐπὶ τὸ ς. Arist.Pol.1270b33.

2. of persons, harsh, austere, cruel, stubborn, S.Fr.24.7, Pl.Tht.155e, Ti.Locr. l.c.; ς. ἀοιδός, of the Sphinx, S.OT36; “ς. γὰρ αἰεί” E.Alc.500; “ὦ ς. δαῖμον” Ar.Nu. 1264; “τοὺς τρόπους σκληρός” Id.Pax350; ἄγροικοι καὶ ς. Arist.EN1128a9; “ς. ψυχή” S.Aj.1361, Tr.1260(anap.); “ς. ἄγαν φρονήματα” Id.Ant.473; “ἦθος” Pl.Smp.195e; ς. θράσος stubborn courage, E.Andr.261.

III. Adv., -ρῶς καθῆσθαι, i.e. on a hard seat, Ar.Eq.783; “εὐνάζεσθαι” X. Cyn.12.2.

2. hardly, with difficulty, E.Fr.282.9.

3. harshly, obstinately, “ς. διαμάχεσθαι” Pl.Lg.629a; ἀπειλεῖν ib.885d; “τὰ μαλακὰ ς. καὶ τὰ σκληρὰ μαλακῶς λέγειν” Arist.Rh.1408b9; “ς. αὐλεῖν” Id.Aud. 803a20. (Prob. cogn. with σκέλλω.)

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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