σκληρά (sklera)

σκληρά is an Ancient Greek form of σκληρός, meaning “hard, harsh”. It is the vocative singular feminine adjective.

Found 66 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Suppliants 884: ἀγροὺς δὲ ναίων, σκληρὰ τῇ φύσει διδοὺς

Plutarch, Pericles 33.7: ὡς τἀνάπαιστα ταῦτα δηλοῖ ποιήσαντος Ἑρμίππου· βασιλεῦ σατύρων, τί ποτʼ οὐκ ἐθέλεις δόρυ βαστάζειν, ἀλλὰ λόγους μὲν περὶ τοῦ πολέμου δεινοὺς παρέχεις, ψυχὴ δὲ Τέλητος ὕπεστιν; κἀγχειριδίου δʼ ἀκόνῃ σκληρᾷ παραθηγομένης βρύχεις κοπίδος, δηχθεὶς αἴθωνι Κλέωνι.

Sophocles, Trachiniae 1260: νόσον, ὦ ψυχὴ σκληρά, χάλυβος

All forms of σκληρός (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.