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βίαιος

biaios

forcible, violent

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Where it lives

  • De Respiratione 6 · 9.88/10k
  • De Mundo 6 · 9.46/10k
  • Suppliant Maidens 3 · 6.22/10k
  • Eudemian Ethics 13 · 4.98/10k
  • Statesman 7 · 4.13/10k
  • Machabaeorum IV 3 · 3.89/10k
  • Hiero 2 · 3.36/10k
  • Sapientia Salomonis 2 · 2.9/10k
  • Trojan Women 2 · 2.83/10k
  • Timaeus 6 · 2.54/10k
  • Fragments 1 · 2.51/10k
  • Agamemnon 2 · 2.47/10k

Densest 12 of 53 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

βίαιος · biaios — LSJ

forcible, violent, by force, perforce, violent, by violence, for forcible rescue, in their irresistible might, forcing their way, firmly

forcible, violent: Adj. once in Hom., ἔρδειν ἔργα βίαια Od. 2.236, Adv. twice, by force, perforce, κατέδουσι βιαίως οἶκον Ὀδυσσῆος 2.237; γυναιξὶ παρευνάζεσθε βιαίως 22.37; freq. in all writers, ἔργα β. Thgn. 1343; νόμος ἄγει δικαιῶν τὸ βιαιότατον Pi. Fr. 169; of persons, βιαιότατος τῶν πολιτῶν Th. 3.36; χρόνος καταψήχει καὶ τὰ βιαιότατα Simon. 176; β. θάνατος a violent death, Hdt. 7.170, Pl. R. 566b, etc.; β. νόσος S. Ant. 1140 (lyr.); β. ἄνεμος Arist. Mete. 370b9; ἐπάρδευσις Epicur. Ep. 2p.44U

2 a wizard

esp. of magic, β. τέχνη Philostr. VA 1.33. Adv. βιαίως, σοφός a wizard, ib. 1.2.

II forced, constrained

Pass., forced, constrained, opp. ἑκούσιος, πράξεις Pl. R. 603c; β. κίνησις, = παρὰ φύσιν κ., Arist. Ph. 254a9, cf. Pl. Ti. 64d; τὸ β., = οὗ ἔξωθεν ἡ ἀρχὴ μηδὲν συμβαλλομένου τοῦ βιασθέντος Arist. EN 1110b15; ἡ β. τροφή, of the diet of athletes, Id. Pol. 1338b41; πόνοι μὴ β. ib. 1335b9; ὁ χρηματιστὴς (sc. βίος) β. τίς ἐστιν, Id. EN 1096a6; βιαιότερος λόγος Jul. Or. 6.191d. Adv. -ως, = παρὰ φύσιν, κινεῖσθαι Arist. Ph. 253b34: Comp. -οτέρως Gal. 17(1).19.

2

= βιαιοθάνατος, PMag.Par. 1.332.

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