βία: Difference between revisions

|mdlsjtxt=<br /><b class="num">I.</b> [[bodily]] [[strength]], [[force]], [[power]], [[might]], Hom., etc.; [[periphrasis]] βίη Ἡρακληείη the [[strength]] of [[Hercules]], i. e. the [[strong]] [[Hercules]], Il.; βίη Διομήδεος Il.; Τυδέως βία, Πολυνείκους β. Aesch., etc.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> of the [[mind]], Il.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> [[force]], an act of [[violence]], Od.; in plural, Od.; in [[attic]], βίαι τινός [[against]] one's [[will]], in [[spite]] of him, Aesch., Thuc., etc.; βίαι φρενῶν Aesch.; also βίαι [[alone]] as an adv., [[perforce]], Od., etc.; so, πρὸς βίαν τινός and πρὸς βίαν [[alone]], Aesch.