ἀναγκ-άζω,
future -άσω[[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 337, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.35] Refs 5th c.BC+] (later 2nd pers.plural -ᾶτε[[ “Arch.Papyrus” 6.286)] Refs]: perfect ἠνάγκακα[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Hipparchus” 232b] Refs 5th c.BC+]: pluperfect -ειν[[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 33.28] Refs 4th c.BC+]: (ἀνάγκη):—force, compel, mostly with accusative person et infinitive, ἀ. τινὰ κτείνειν, πόλισμα, συνθήκας ποιεῖσθαι, etc., [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.11, 98, 6.42] Refs 5th c.BC+]; δρᾶν, λέγειν, etc., [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 256, “OC” 979, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]: so in passive, ἠναγκάζοντο ἀμύνεσθαι[[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.101: without ] Refs 5th c.BC+]infinitive, κἄμ᾽ ἀναγκάζεις τάδε (i.e. δρᾶν) [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1368, compare “OT” 280] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀναγκάζεσθαί τι to be forced [to do] a thing, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 242a, 254b, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 4.5.4; ἀ. τινὰ ἐς τὸ πολεμεῖν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.23; ἐς τὸ ἔργον [prev. author] 2.75. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 with accusative person only, constrain a person, τὸ συνδρῶν σ᾽ ἀναγκάσει χρέος[[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 337] Refs 5th c.BC+]; especially by argument, opposed to ῥητορικῶς ἐλέγχειν, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 472b] Refs 5th c.BC+]; δεινοῖς ἠναγκάσθην I was constrained, tortured, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 221, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Hiero” 9.2] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἠναγκασμένος, ἀναγκασθείς under compulsion, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.22, 8.99; ὑπὸ δεσμῶν ἀναγκασθείς 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.2; φανεροὶ ἦσαν ἀναγκασθησόμενοι 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.19. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]