obligation
From LSJ
ἅτε γὰρ ἐννάλιον πόνον ἐχοίσας βαθύν σκευᾶς ἑτέρας, ἀβάπτιστος εἶμι φελλὸς ὣς ὑπὲρ ἕρκος ἅλμας → for just as when the rest of the tackle labors in the depths of the sea, like a cork I shall go undipped over the surface of the brine | as when the other part of the tackle is laboring deep in the sea, I go unsoaked like a cork above the surface of the sea
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
substantive
be under an obligation: P. and V. χάριν ὀφείλειν.
I should be under great obligation to them for this charge: P. πολλὴν ἂν αὐτοῖς χάριν εἶχον ταύτης της κατηγορίας (Lys. 145).
that you may not think yourselves under any obligation to this detestable creature: P. ἵνα μηδ' ὀφείλειν οἴησθέ τι τῷ καταπτύστῳ, τούτῳ (Dem. 570).
duty: P. and V. τὸ προσῆκον.
compulsion: P. and V. ἀνάγκη, ἡ.
