κατανάγκη
From LSJ
φιλοσοφώτερον καὶ σπουδαιότερον ποίησις ἱστορίας ἐστίν: ἡ μὲν γὰρ ποίησις μᾶλλον τὰ καθόλου, ἡ δ' ἱστορία τὰ καθ' ἕκαστον λέγει → poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts
English (LSJ)
ἡ,
A means of constraint: spell, βιαιότεραι κ. cj. in Hld.6.14. II kind of vetch, Ornithopus compressus, used in making philtres, Dsc.4.131, Plin.HN27.57, PMag.Osl.1.370. 2 = κῆμος, Ps.-Dsc.4.133.
