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ῥώμη , ἡ, (ῥώομαι)
A.bodily strength, might, Xenoph.2.11, Hdt.1.31, 8.113; γυίων ῥ. A.Pers.913 (anap.); “μεῖζον ἢ κατ᾽ ἐμὰν ῥώμαν” S.Tr. 1019(lyr.); “ἐπ᾽ ἀσθενοῦς ῥώμης ὀχούμεθ᾽” E.Or.69; “ἀκμαζούσῃ τῇ ῥώμῃ τῶν χειρῶν χρώμενος” Antipho 4.3.3, cf. Agatho 27; εἴ τῳ . . προλίποι ἡ ῥ. καὶ τὸ σῶμα, i.e. his bodily strength, Th.7.75; ὁ μετὰ ῥώμης γιγνόμενος θάνατος in the full strength or vigour of life, Id.2.43; ὑγίειαν καὶ ῥ. Pl.Phdr.270b; τὴν ἰσχὺν δεινὰ καὶ τὴν ῥ. Id.Smp.190b; “ῥ. καὶ τόλμῃ” D.18.220; “ῥώμης ἀκμή” Eub.7.6: pl., πιστεύοντες ταῖς αὑτῶν ῥ. Lys.24.16; ταῖς τῶν σωμάτων ῥ. X.Cyr.3.3.19.
2. of nations, armies, and the like , “τὴν παροῦσαν νῦν ῥ. πόλεως” Th.4.18.
3. of things, strength, force, might, “δορός” E.Supp.26; “πνίγους” Pl.Lg. 633c; “πνεύματ᾽ ἀνέμων οὐκ ἀεὶ ῥώμην ἔχει” E.HF102; also “ῥ. ψυχῆς” X.Cyr.4.2.14; “ἡδονῶν” Pl.Lg.841a; τοῦ λέγειν ib.711e; “λόγου” Id.Phdr.267a; ἡ τῶν λόγων ῥ. Cratin.Jun.7.3.
4. οὐ μιᾷ ῥώμῃ not single-handed, S.OT123: a force, i.e. army, X.An.3.3.14, HG7.4.16.
5. confidence, “τοῖς Λακεδαιμονίοις ἐγεγένητό τις ῥ., διότι τοὺς Ἀθηναίους ἐνόμιζον διπλοῦν τὸν πόλεμον ἔχοντας . . εὐκαθαιρετωτέρους ἔσεσθαι” Th.7.18, cf. 42, 4.29.
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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