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στερεός , ά, όν, also στερρός (q.v.),
A.firm, solid, “ς. λίθος ἠὲ σίδηρος” Od.19.494; “βοέαι” Il.17.493; αἰχμὴ ς. πᾶσα χρυσέη all of solid gold, Hdt.1.52, cf. 183; “ἕρμα ς. γῆς” E.Hel.854, cf. X.Cyn.9.16; “γῆ ς. καὶ ἀδιάλυτος” Epicur.Nat.14.2; τὰ -ώτερα τῶν ὀστέων, opp. τὰ ἀραιότερα, Hp.Fract.33; τὸ ς., opp. κενόν, Democr. ap. Arist.Ph.188a22, Metaph.985b7; opp. μαλθακός, Pl.Phdr.239c; κυσὶ ς. καὶ ἰσχνοῖς, opp. προβάτοις πίοσι καὶ ἁπαλοῖς, Id.R.422d; “ἀθλητής” D.L.2.132; “βραχίονες” Theoc.22.48; “δέρματα” Pl.Prt.321a; “νῆμα” Id.Plt.282e; ς. κέρας solid, opp. κοῖλον, Arist.HA500a6; “ς. κάλαμος” Thphr.HP4.11.10; στερεὰ τροφή solid food, D.S.2.4, Ep.Hebr.5.12, Arr.Epict.2.16.39 (Comp.); τὸ ς. σῶμα, opp. ὁ χυλός, Gal.15.463; ς. κοιλίη costive, Hp.Acut.（Sp.）56. Adv. -ρεῶς firmly, fast, “κατέδησαν” Od.14.346; “ἐντέτατο” Il.10.263; νῶτα . . ἑλκόμενα ς., of wrestlers, 23.715.
b. of money, standard, of full value, “ἀργυρίου στερεὰ τάλαντα” SIG826 D 20 (Delph., ii B.C.); so perh. of sums due in kind, “πυροῦ στερεοῦ” PRein.8.5 (ii B.C.), al.; and of linear and square measures, τῆς προσούσης αὐλῆς πηχῶν ς. ὀκτὼ τὸ ἐπιβάλλον αὐτῷ μέρος ἥμισυ πήχεις ς. τέσσερας eight (four) standard cubits, PStrassb.87 (ii B.C.), cf. PLond.3.1024.19 (ii B.C.); πόδες ς. standard feet, Milet.7p.59 (Didyma); μέτρημα ς. Supp.Epigr.4.446.11 (ibid, iii/ii B.C.).
c. ὠρύγη ποταμὸς ἐπὶ τὰ τρία ς. the ditch was restored by digging to its three normal dimensions, OGI672 (Canopus, i A.D.), cf. 673, where the Latin version has at tria soldu（m).
2. metaph., stiff, stubborn, στερεοῖς ἐπέεσσι, opp. μειλιχίοις, Il.12.267; “κραδίη -ωτέρη ἐστὶ λίθοιο” Od.23.103. Adv. “-ρεῶς, ἀποειπεῖν” Il.9.510, cf. 23.42.
3. later, hard, stubborn, cruel, “πῦρ” Pi.O.10(11).36; “ὀδύναι” Id.P.4.221; “ἀπειλαί” A.Pr. 174 (anap.); “ἁμαρτήματα” S.Ant.1262 (lyr.); “ἦθος” Pl.Plt.309b; “οὕτω ς. <τι> πρᾶγμα θερμόν ἐσθ᾽ ὕδωρ” Antiph.245; “ς. φωνή” Tryph.490; τοῦτο ἤδη -ώτερον harder, more difficult, Pl.R.348e.
4. of language, τὸ εὔτονον καὶ ς. solidity, D.H.Din.8; “ποιήματα” Phld.Po.5.5, cf. 4 (Sup.).
5. ς. ζῴδια, i.e. productive of settled conditions, Serapio in Cat.Cod.Astr.1.100.17, Ptol.Tetr.32, PMag.Lond.46.47.
II. of bodies and quantities, solid, cubic, opp. ἐπίπεδος (plane), Pl.Phlb.51c; ς. γωνία a solid angle, Id.Ti.54e sq., cf. Euc. 11 Def.11; “ς. πῆχυς” POxy.669.7 (iii A.D.); ς. ἀριθμός a cubic number, Arist.Pol.1316a8; τὰ ς. cubic numbers, representing bodies of three dimensions, Pl.Tht.148b: dat. sg. “στερεῷ” in the third power, Theol.Ar.4. (Cf. Skt. sthirás 'firm, hard, solid', OHG. star 'rigid', OE. starian 'stare fixedly'.)
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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