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|Text=[[File:woodhouse_528.jpg|thumb|link={{filepath:woodhouse_528.jpg}}]]'''v. intrans.'''

<b class="b2">Be able</b>: P. and V. [[δύναμαι|δύνασθαι]], ἔχειν; see [[able]].

<b class="b2">As a mild form of command</b>: use V. ἄν (with optative).

<b class="b2">Might have</b>: see <b class="b2">may have</b>, under [[may]].

<b class="b2">As might well have been, as is probable</b>: P. and V. ὡς [[εἰκός]].

<b class="b2">You might have, it was open to you</b>: P. and V. ἐξῆν σοι (infin.), παρῆν σοι (infin.), παρεῖχέ σοι (infin.); see under [[open]].

<b class="b2">But for so and so the Phocians might have been saved</b>: P. εἰ μὴ διὰ τὸ καὶ τὸ ἐσώθησαν ἂν οἱ Φωκεῖς (Dem. 364).

<b class="b2">Strength</b>: P. and V. [[δύναμις]], ἡ, [[ἰσχύς]], ἡ, [[ῥώμη]], ἡ, V. [[σθένος]], τό, [[ἀλκή]], ἡ, [[μένος]], τό (also Plat. but rare P.); see [[strength]].

<b class="b2">Power, authority</b>: P. and V. [[κράτος]], τό. [[δύναμις]], ἡ, [[ἰσχύς]], ἡ, [[ἐξουσία]], ἡ. V. [[σθένος]], τό.

<b class="b2">Rule</b>: P. and V. [[ἀρχή]], ἡ, [[κράτος]], τό.

<b class="b2">With might and main</b>: P. κατὰ [[κράτος]], παντὶ σθένει. Ar. κατὰ τὸ καρτερόν; see [[vigorously]].

<b class="b2">Might, as opposed to right</b>: P. and V. βία, ἡ, [[ἰσχύς]], ἡ, τὸ καρτερόν.