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κρα^ται-ίς , ἡ, (κρατύς) of the stone of Sisyphus, ὅτε μέλλοι ἄκρον ὑπερβαλέειν, τότ᾽ ἀποστρέψασκε κραταιίς when it was just about to surmount the top, then did
A.mighty weight turn it back, dub. in Od.11.597 (taken as Adv., violently, by Aristarch.; as κράται᾽ ἴς (where κράταια may be an old fem. of κρατύς like *πλάταια (cf. Skt. pṛthivī), pl. Πλαταιαί, fem. of πλατύς) by Ptol.Asc. ap. Hdn.Gr.2.153).
II. (proparox.) as pr.n., the Mighty one, name of the mother of Scylla, Od.12.124.
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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