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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.

C. de Boor, "Suidas und die Konstantinsche Exzerptsammlung I." Byzantinische Zeitschrift 21 (1912) 418
T. Büttner-Wobst, ed., Polybii Historiae, vol. IV, (Leipzig 1904)

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