ἀνάγκη,
Ionic dialect and Epic dialect ἀναγκαίη, ἡ, force, constraint, necessity, κρατερὴ δ᾽ ἐπικείσετ᾽ ἀ.[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.458] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἀναγκαίη γὰρ ἐπείγει[[ [prev. work] 85; ἀναγκαίῃ πολεμίζειν 4.300; τίς τοι ἀνάγκη πτώσσει; 5.633; οἷσιν ἀ. (i.e. φυλάσσειν) 10.418, +others: but in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus usually in _dative_ as ] Refs 8th c.BC+]adverb, ἀνάγκῃ perforce, of necessity, ἀείδειν[[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.154; φεύγειν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.150] Refs 8th c.BC+]: in active sense, forcibly, by force, ἴσχειν, ἄγειν, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.557, 22.353; μνήσασθαι 7.217: strengthened by καί, 10.434; ὑπ᾽ ἀνάγκης 19.156] Refs 8th c.BC+]; opposed to ἑκόντες, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 231a; ὑπ᾽ ἀναγκαίης 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.172, +others; ἐξ ἀνάγκης 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 73, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.40, etc.; δι᾽ ἀνάγκης 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 47e; σὺν ἀνάγκᾳ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 1.51; πρὸς ἀνάγκαν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 569 codices (Lyric poetry), compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Epictetus Philosophus “Enchiridion” 29.2; κατ᾽ ἀνάγκην 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.3.7: ἀνάγκη ἐστί,] Refs 5th c.BC+] with infinitive, it must be that.., is necessary that..,[[compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” above quoted; πᾶσα ἀ. ἐστὶ ὗσαι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.22; τρέφειν τοὺς τοκέας τοῖσι μὲν παισὶν οὐδεμία ἀ., τῇσι δὲ θυγατράσι πᾶσα ἀ. [prev. work] 35] Refs 8th c.BC+]: with dative person, ἀ. μοι σχεθεῖν[[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 16, compare “Pers.” 293:] Refs 4th c.BC+] —in Trag. frequently in answers and arguments, πολλή γ᾽ ἀνάγκη, πολλή᾽ στ᾽ ἀνάγκη, or πολλή μ᾽ ἀνάγκη, with which an infinitive may always be supplied, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 1013, “Hec.” 396, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 295; so πᾶσ᾽ ἀνάγκη “El.” 1497, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 441d] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀνάγκη μεγάλη [ἐστί[[] [prev. work] 485e, 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 3.6, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 28.9; ἐν ἀνάγκῃ ἐστί 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 6.8: later ἀνάγκην ἔχω,] Refs 5th c.BC+] with infinitive, [[ NT.Luke.14.18. ] NT]