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ἰσχ-ύς [v. sub fin.], ύος, ἡ,
A.strength of body, Hes.Th.146, 823, etc.; “ἀκμαὶ ἰσχύος” Pi.O.1.96; “δεινὸν ἰσχύος θράσος” S.Ph.104; “τὴν ἰ. δεινὰ καὶ τὴν ῥώμην” Pl.Smp.190b; “πρὸς ἰσχὺν ὀφθαλμοὶ ἄριστα πεφυκότες” X.Smp.5.5: pl., “ἰσχύες καὶ ἀσθένειαι” Pl.R.618d; “κατὰ σωμάτων ἰσχῦς καὶ εὐμορφίας” Id.Lg.744c; of places, “ἰσχὺς γῆς” S.OC610; of a fortified place, Th.4.35.
2. might, power, θεοῦ, θεῶν, A.Th.226 (lyr.), S.Aj. 118; “ἰ. βασιλεία” A.Pers.590 (lyr.), cf. 12(anap.); ὅπου γὰρ ἰ. συζυγοῦσι καὶ δίκη might and right, Id.Fr.381; φύσεως ἰ., of Themistocles, Th. 1.138; ἐπὶ μέγα ἐλθεῖν ἰσχύος to a great height of power, Id.2.97, cf. 1.85, etc.; “παρὰ ἰσχὺν τῆς δυνάμεως” Id.7.66; ἰ. μάχης fighting power, Id.2.97; “ἰ. τῆς ἐλπίδος” Id.4.65, cf. 2.62; ἡ τῶν νόμων ἰ. POxy.67.14 (iv A.D.); validity, PGrenf.2.71ii11 (iii A.D.), etc.
3. brute force, κατ᾽ ἰσχύν perforce, opp. δόλῳ, A.Pr.214; “πρὸς ἰσχύος κράτος” S.Ph. 594; “πρὸς ἰσχύος χάριν” E.Med.538; “ὑπὸ τῆς ἰσχύος” Epicr.3.10; “κατέχοντες ἰσχύϊ τὸ πλῆθος” Th.3.62; “εἴ τι ἰσχύϊ πράττεται, ἰσχυρῶς πράττεται” Pl.Prt.332b.
4. motive force, Arist.Ph.250a6; ἡ κινοῦσα ἰ. Id.Cael.275b20, al.
5. in Lit. Crit., vigour of style, D.H.Pomp.3, Comp. 2,al.
II. in Tactics, the main body of troops, “οὔπω ἡ ἰ. πάρεστιν” X.Cyr.1.4.19. [υ^ in gen., etc.: in nom. and acc. sg. υ^ in Pi.N.11.31 (acc.): υ_ in Trag. and Com., A.Th.1080 (anap.), Ch.721 (anap.), S. Aj.118, Men.449.] (Perh. ϝισχύς, cf. βίσχυν, γισχύν.)
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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