βία,
Ionic dialect βίη [ῐ], ἡ: Epic dialect dative βίηφι [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.6 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]:—bodily strength, force, [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, etc.; χειρῶν βία 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 10.91:—in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+], periphrastic of strong men, βίη Ἡρακληείη [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.658, where the ] Refs 8th c.BC+]participle masculine πέρσας follows, compare [[ 11.690 ] Refs]; βίη Ἐτεοκληείη, Ἰφικλείη,[[ 4.386, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.290, etc.; βίη Διομήδεος 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.781; also ἲς.. βίης Ἠρακληείης 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 332 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: so in Lyric poetry and Trag., Πέλοπος βία [[ 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 5.181 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Τυδέως βία, Πολυνείκους β., [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 571, 577; φίλτατ᾽ Αἰγίσθου β. [prev. author] “Ch.” 893 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; θήρειος β., ={Κένταυροι}, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1059. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 personified, Κράτος Βία τε [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 12. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__3 of the mind, οὐκ ἔστι βίη φρεσίν [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.45. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__3.b of an argument, βίαν οὐκ ἔχειν πρὸς [τὸ] ἀποδειξαι [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ σημείων καὶ σημειώσεων” 9. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__II act of violence, ὕβρις τε βίη τε [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.329 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: mostly in plural, κείνων γε βίας ἀποτείσεαι [[ 11.117; βίας ὑποδέγμενος ἀνδρῶν 16.189; βίαι ἀνέμων 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.213. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]