1. strength, might , (Iliad by Homer):—;with infinitive, σθ. πολεμίζειν strength to war, (Iliad by Homer); σθ. ὥστε καθελεῖν (Euripides); σθένει by force , (Sophocles Tragicus); λόγῳ τε καὶ σθένει both by right and might , (Sophocles Tragicus); so, ὑπὸ σθένους (Euripides); παντὶ σθένει with all one's might , (Thucydides)

2. strength, might , of all kinds moral as well as physical, σθένος τῆς ἀληθείας (Sophocles Tragicus); ἀγγέλων σθ. their might or authority , (Aeschulus Tragicus)

3. a force of men, like δύναμις, (Iliad by Homer)

4. metaphorically, like Lat. vis for copia, a quantity, profusion , (Pindar)

5. periphrastic, like βίη, ἴς, μένος, as σθένος Ἰδομενῆος, Ὠρίωνος, for Idomeneus, Orion, themselves, (Iliad by Homer) (ML)