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|Text=[[File:woodhouse_28.jpg|thumb|link={{filepath:woodhouse_28.jpg}}]]'''v. intrans.'''

<b class="b2">Lit.</b>, P. [[γίγνομαι|γίγνεσθαι]]. Met., Ar. and P. [[δύναμαι|δύνασθαι]].

<b class="b2">A demand peremptorily made on one's neighbours before its justice is tested, be it large or small, amounts equally to enslavement</b>: P. τὴν αὐτὴν δύναται δούλωσιν ἥ τε μεγίστη καὶ ἐλαχίστη [[δικαίωσις]] . . . πρὸ δίκης τοῖς [[πέλας]] ἐπιτασσομένη (Thuc. 1, 141).

<b class="b2">If to yield grudgingly and to yield quickly amount to the same thing</b>: P. εἰ τὸ αὐτὸ δύναται σχολῇ καὶ ταχὺ συμβῆναι (Thuc. 3, 46).