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στρυφνός , ή, όν, of taste,
A.sour, harsh, astringent, Pl.Ti.65d, X. Hier.1.22, Thphr.HP3.12.4, Gal.6.68,450; “τὸ ς. συνάγεν τὰν γεῦσιν πέφυκε” Ti.Locr.101c; “ς. μῆλα” Antiph.188; βόλβα (because served with vinegar, etc.) Luc.Epigr.46; “οἶνος” Dsc.5.6; “γάλα” Sor.1.91; “μᾶζα” Hsch.; “στρυφνοῦ καὶ αὐστηροῦ τὸ κοινὸν γένος ὀνομάζεται στῦφον” Gal.6.475; τὸ ς. defined as more στῦφον than τὸ αὐστηρόν, ib.778, 15.641.
II. metaph. of temper or manner, harsh, austere, “ς. ἦθος” Ar.V.877, Arist.HA491b16; “ἄνθρωποι” X.Cyr.2.2.11 (Comp.); οἱ ς. Arist.EN1157b14; ἐν τοῖς ς. καὶ πρεσβυτικοῖς ib.1158a2; “οἴνου πολίτης ὢν κρατίστου στρυφνὸς εἶ” Amphis 36. Adv. “-νῶς, ἐχθροῖς προσφερόμεθα” Eust.931.45.
2. of style, harsh, austere, D.H.Amm. 2.2; τὸ τραχὺ καὶ ς. (v.l. στριφνόν) Id.Comp.22.
III. stiff, rigid, dub. in Hp.VM14,15 (στριφν- cod. M); οὐρή dub. in Opp.C.1.411 (v.l. στριφνή).
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (7):
    • Aristophanes, Wasps, 877
    • Plato, Timaeus, 65d
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 2.2.11
    • Xenophon, Hiero, 1.22
    • Hippocrates, De prisca medicina, 14
    • Hippocrates, De prisca medicina, 15
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, 22
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