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σιδήρεος

sidereos

made of iron

Appears 11 times across Plato's dialogues.

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σιδήρεος, α, Ion. and Ep. η, ον, Att. contr. σιδηροῦς, ᾶ, οῦν SIG 144.14, etc.; Ep. also σιδήρειος, η, ον, v. infr.; also late, Stud.Pal. 20.217.9 (vi A.D.) (fem. -ειος Theognost. Can. 56); Dor. σιδάρεος [ᾱ] IG 42(1).103.114 (Epid., iv B.C.), and v. infr. II, also σιδάριος SIG 246 ii 67 (Delph., iv B.C.); Aeol. σιδάριος Theoc. 29.24:—A. made of iron or steel, ἄξων Il. 5.723; σιδηρείη κορύνη 7.141; πύλαι 8.15; ὑποκρητηρίδιον Hdt. 1.25; σκύταλον Theoc. 17.31; χεὶρ σ. grappling-iron, Th. 4.25, 7.62: also σ. ὀρυμαγδός, i.e. the clang of arms, Il. 17.424; σ. οὐρανός the iron sky, the firmament, which the ancients held to be of metal, Od. 15.329 (cf. χάλκεος) ; σ. γένος, of the Iron age, Hes. Op. 176. 2. metaph., ἦ γὰρ σοί γε σ. ἐν φρεσὶ θυμός a soul of iron, i.e. hard, stubborn as iron, Il. 22.357, cf. Od. 23.172; οὐδέ μοι . . θυμὸς ἐνὶ στήθεσσι σ., ἀλλʼ ἐλεήμων 5.191; οὐδʼ εἴ οἱ κραδίη γε σ. ἔνδοθεν ἦεν 4.293; σιδήρειόν νύ τοι ἦτορ Il. 24.205,521; ἦ ῥά νυ σοί γε σ. πάντα τέτυκται thou art iron all! Od. 12.280; πυρὸς μένος . . σ. the iron force of fire, Il. 23.177; of Heracles, the ironsided, Simon. 8; of men, Ar. Ach. 491; σὰρξ σ. Theoc. 22.47; ὦ σιδήρεοι O ye ironhearted! Aeschin. 3.166; εἰ μὴ σιδηροῦς ἐστιν, οἴομαι ἔννουν γεγονέναι Lys. 10.20; σ. λόγοι Pl. Grg. 509a. II. σιδάρεοι, οἱ, Byzantine iron coins, always used in Dor. form, even at Athens, Ar. Nu. 249, Pl.Com. 96, Stratt. 36.
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