Altered, forceful, large.[1]
Aristophanes [writes]: "there is a certain tree which has grown strange, above Kardia -- Kleonymos: not at all useful, and otherwise terrible[2] and big. In the spring this [tree] always grows and spreads slander, but in winter it drops shields like leaves."[3] He is comparing Kleon[4] to a tree, either as being big or as insensible, from the Homeric [expression].[5] Kardia is a city, and Kardians are [its] citizens.[6] He says this because of [the man's] cowardice [ἀκάρδιον ].[7]