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βιάω

biao

constrain, to be forcibly driven, will

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Where it lives

  • 1 Peter 1 · 5.8/10k
  • Meditations 12 · 4.13/10k
  • Enchiridion 2 · 4.03/10k
  • Machabaeorum IV 3 · 3.89/10k
  • Charmides 2 · 2.41/10k
  • Statesman 4 · 2.36/10k
  • Judices (cod. Al.) 3 · 2.05/10k
  • Theogony 1 · 1.45/10k
  • History 21 · 1.4/10k
  • Regnorum II 2 · 1.24/10k
  • Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k
  • Epistles 2 · 1.18/10k

Densest 12 of 32 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

βῐάω · biaō — LSJ

constrain, to be forcibly driven, will, yield to force

constrain, Act. only in the pf., ἄχος, χρειὼ βεβίηκεν Ἀχαιούς, Il. 10.145, 172, 16.22:—Pass., to be forcibly driven, of fire, ἀνέμῳ βιώμενον Hdt. 1.19; πῦρ βεβιημένον AP 9.546 (Antiphil.); θανάτῳ βιηθείς Hdt. 7.83, cf. Hp. Mul. 1.40: fut., οὐ βιήσεται (in pass. sense) will not yield to force, ib. 2.132; βιωομένη (v.l. βιαζ-) Mosch. 2.13.

II should press, hard, forced, wronged us, deprived us of, force, ravish, drive, urge on

freq. as Dep. (pres. imper. βιάσθω Parm. 1.34, fut. βιήσεται Emp. 4.6) in act. sense, οἳ κεῖνον βιόωνται Od. 11.503, cf. 23.9, Pl. Ti. 63c; ὡς εἴ ἑ βιῴατο (opt.) . . Τρῶες should press him hard, Il. 11.467; βιήσατο κῦμʼ ἐπὶ χέρσου it forced me upon . . , Od. 7.278; ψεύδεσσι βιησάμενος over-reaching, Il. 23.576; τότε νῶϊ βιήσατο μισθὸν ἅπαντα wronged us, deprived us of our wages, 21.451; τὸ δοκεῖν καὶ τὰν ἀλάθειαν βιᾶται Simon. 76, cf. Pi. N. 8.34, B. 12.200; force, ravish, παρθένον Hdt. 4.43; dr

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