A.strong, stout, sturdy, freq. in Hom. and Hes., of men's limbs, ὦμος, αὐχήν, βραχίονες, Il.5.400, 18.415, Od.18.69; “χείρ” 8.189; “μέλεα” Hes.Sc.76; “πλευραί” Pi.Fr.111; of weapons, ἔγχος, σάκος, Il.5.746, 3.335, etc.; δίσκος -ώτερος more massy, Od. 8.187; later, of persons, “ς. τις καὶ καρτερά” Ar.Th.639; “ς. τὸ σῶμα” J.BJ6.2.8; “ς. τῇ γλώσσῃ” LXX Ez.3.6; μοῖρα ς. Epigr. ap. Paus.10.12.6; εὐεπίη (of Aeschylus) AP7.39 (Antip.Thess.); “ἀπειλά” Hymm.Is. 170; “λέξις” D.H.Th.24, cf. Comp.22; -ώτερος λόγος a bulkier book, Sor.1.2; γυμνάσια -ώτερα, -ώτατα, more (most) violent, Antyll. ap. Orib.6.21.4, 6.35.2. Adv., πύλαι . . πύκα -ρῶς ἀραρυῖαι gates close shut, Il.12.454; βαρύνων τὸν κλοιὸν ς. LXX Hb.2.6; φρόντιζε ς. M.Ant.2.5. (Prob. cogn. with στείβω.)
στι^βα^ρ-ός , ά, όν,
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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