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Liddell-Scott-Jones Lexicon of Classical Greek
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Words With Similar Definitions
Greek1: anankaios 2: peithanankê 3: chreôn 4: chrê 5: chreô
Latin1: necessitas 2: - 3: - 4: - 5: -
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Words That Regularly Appear With anankê
In Perseus Texts:huparchôendechomaihiêmiheisgignomai
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anankê, Ion. and Ep. anankaiê, hê, force, constraint, necessity, kraterê d' epikeiset' a. Hom. Il. 6.458; anankaiê gar epeigei IBID=au=Hom. Il. 6.85=lr; anankaiêi polemizein au=Hom. Il. 4.300; tis toi anankê ptôssein; au=Hom. Il. 5.633; hoisin a. (sc. phulassein) au=Hom. Il. 10.418, al.: but in Hom. usu. in dat. as Adv., anankêi perforce, of necessity, aeidein Hom. Od. 1.154; pheugein Hom. Il. 11.150: in act. sense, forcibly, by force, ischein, agein, Hom. Od. 4.557, au=Hom. Od. 22.353; mnêsasthai au=Hom. Od. 7.217: strengthd. by kai, au=Hom. Od. 10.434; hup' anankês au=Hom. Od. 19.156; opp. hekontes, Plat. Phaedrus 231a; hup' anankaiês Hdt. 7.172, al.; ex anankês Soph. Phil. 73, Thuc. 3.40, etc.; di' anankês Plat. Tim. 47e; sun anankai Pind. P. 1.51; pros anankan Aesch. Pers. 569 codd. (lyr.), cf. Epict.Ench.29.2; kat' anankên Xen. Cyrop. 4.3.7: anankê esti, c. inf., it must be that . . , is necessary that . . , cf. Il. supr. cit.; pasa a. esti husai Hdt. 2.22; trephein tous tokeas toisi men paisin oudemia a., têisi de thugatrasi pasa a. IBID=au=Hdt. 2.35=lr: c. dat. pers., a. moi schethein Aesch. PB 16, cf. ti=Aesch. Pers. 293:--

  • in Trag. freq. in answers and arguments, pollê g' anankê, pollê' st' anankê, or pollê m' anankê, with which an inf. may always be supplied, Eur. Med. 1013, ti=Eur. Hec. 396, Soph. Trach. 295; so pas' anankê ti=Soph. El. 1497, cf. Plat. Rep. 441d; anankê megalê [esti] IBID=au=Plat. Rep. 485e, Isaeus 3.6, Dem. 28.9; en anankêi esti Lys. 6.8: later anankên echô, c. inf., Ev.Luc. 14.18.

    2. necessity in the philosophical sense, Arist.APo.94b37, ti=    Aristot. Met. 1026b28, ti=Arist. Ph.199b34; logical necessity, Metaph.au=Arist. Ph. 1064b33: in pl., laws of nature, tisin anankais hekasta gignetai tôn ouraniôn Xen. Mem. 1.1.11, cf. Hp.Aër.au=Hp. 1.1.21=lr.

    3. compulsion exerted by a superior, a. prostithenai, epitithenai,     Xen. Hiero 9.4, ti=Xen. Const. Lac. 10.7.

    4. bodily pain, anguish, kat' anankên herpein painfully,     Soph. Phil. 206 (lyr.); hup' anankês boan IBID=au=Soph. Phil. 215; ôdinôn anankai Eur. Ba. 89 (lyr.): generally, distress, en anankais gluku ginetai kai to sklêron Simon.226; freq. in LXX, Jb.15.24, al.; hê enestôsa a. 1 Ep.Cor.7.26: esp. in pl., IG12 (au=IG 7).au=IG =lr (Amorgos, iii B. C.), D.S.4.43, 2 Ep.Cor.6.4, etc.

    II. tie of blood, kindred,     Lys. 32.5.

    III. = hê dikastikê klepsudra, Hsch.