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[Meaning] strength, power.[1]
Hesiod [writes]: "for the Olympian gave might to the sons of Aeacus, intelligence to the sons of Amythaon, and wealth to the sons of Atreus."[2]
And Polybius [writes]: "for the might of words also knows [how] to disdain death."[3]

*)alkh/: i)sxu\s, du/namis. *(hsi/odos: a)lkh\n me\n ga\r e)/dwken *)olu/mpios *ai)aki/dh|si, nou=n d' *)amuqaoni/dais, plou=ton de\ per' *)atrei/dh|si. kai\ *polu/bios: oi)=de ga\r kai\ lo/gwn a)lkh\ qana/tou katafronei=n.

[1] Similar glossing in other lexica, and cf. also the scholia to Homer, Iliad 4.245.
[2] Hesiod fr. 203 Merkelbach-West (in Nicolaus of Damascus FGrH 90 F33), on Zeus.
[3] Polybius fr. 5 Büttner-Wobst. Büttner-Wobst notes (p. 514) that this fragment is in fact Theophylact Simocatta, Histories 5.5.1; cf. de Boor (196) and Whitby (138). The fragment is Theophylact's wry comment after quoting Domitianus's rousing speech to Roman soldiers at Ammodius (Ammodios, Amouda; about 40 stades (8 km) south of Dara, Barrington Atlas map 89 grid C3) in 590. On Domitianus, nephew of the emperor Maurice (cf. mu 294 generally) and Bishop of Melitene (cf. mu 522), see PLRE IIIa s.v. Domitianus.

C. de Boor, "Suidas und die Konstantinsche Exzerptsammlung I." Byzantinische Zeitschrift 21 (1912) 418
T. Büttner-Wobst, ed., Polybii Historiae, vol. IV, (Leipzig 1904)
C. de Boor, ed., Theophylacti Simocattae Historiae, (Leipzig 1887, reprint 2022)
M. Whitby and M. Whitby, eds. and trans., The History of Theophylact Simocatta, (Oxford 1986)
J.R. Martindale, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. IIIa, (Cambridge, 1992)

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