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βῐάζω,
constrain, active once in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, ἦ μάλα δή με βιάζετε 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.297; ἐβίασε τὴν γυναῖκά μου 5th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Comicus 29: _absolutely_, εἰ πάνυ ἐβίαζον] Refs 8th c.BC+] if they used force, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 2.24; compare below 1.2 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, future βιασθήσομαι [[ 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 6.5.9: ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]aorist ἐβιάσθην, perfect βεβίασμαι (see. below):—to be hard pressed or overpowered, βελέεσσι βιάζεται [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.589 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; βιάζετο γὰρ βελ[[. 15.727; βιασθέντες λύᾳ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 9.14; νόσῳ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 20 (= “Tragica Adespota” 70)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; to be forced or constrained to do, with infinitive, [[ [prev. author] “Th.” 890: with _accusative_ _cognate_, βιάζομαι τάδε 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 66, compare 1073; βιασθείς [prev. author] “El.” 575; ἐπεὶ ἐβιάσθη 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.44; ὑπό τινος [prev. author] 1.2 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to ἀδικεῖσθαι,[[ [prev. work] 77; βιασθεὶς ἄκων ἔπραξεν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 6.16; ἵνα ἢ συγχωρήσωσιν.. ἢ βιασθῶσιν [prev. author] 18.175; βιαζόμενος ὑπό τινος ἐξήμαρτεν 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 4.4.5 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; βεβιασμένοι forcibly made slaves, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Hiero” 2.12 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πόλεις βεβ. [[ [prev. author] “HG” 5.2.23: βιαζόμενος ὑπὸ τῆς παρούσης ἀπορίας 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.67 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ βιασθέν those who are forced, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1255a11 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of things, τοὔνειδος ὀργῇ βιασθέν forced from one by anger, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 524 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ βεβιασμένον forced to fit a hypothesis, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1082b2 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; βεβ. σχήματα forced figures of speech, [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Thucydide” 33, compare 3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus “de Antro Nympharum - Porphyrii Opuscula” 36. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__2 active, make good, suffice to discharge a debt, [[ “PFlor.” 56.13. ] Refs]
__II more frequently βιάζομαι, aorist middle ἐβιασάμην, perfect βεβίασμαι [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.206, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Σαμία” 63, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 46.45 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]:—overpower by force, press hard, ἦ μάλα δή σε βιάζεται ὠκὺς Ἀχιλλεύς [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.229, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; β. τοὺς πολεμίους dislodge them, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.4.5 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; β. νόμους to do them violence, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.53 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; βιασάμενος ταῦτα πάντα having broken through all these restraints, [[ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 6.52 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; β. γυναῖκα force her, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 1092 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to πείθειν, [[ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 1.32 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; β. αὑτόν lay violent hands on oneself, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 61c, 61d ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; β. τινά, with infinitive, force one to do, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.3.1 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τί με βιάζεσθε λέγει; [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Fragmenta” 44: with ] Refs 4th c.BC+]infinitive omitted, β. τὰ σφάγια force the victims [to be favourable], [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.41; β. ἄστρα 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 22.9: with double _accusative_, αὐδῶ πόλιν σε μὴ β. τόδε 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 1047. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 with accusative of things, carry by force, βιάσασθαι τὸν ἔκπλουν force an exit, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.72; τὴν ἀπόβασιν [prev. author] 4.11: with _accusative_ _neuter_, 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 4.17, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.3.12. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.3 absolutely, act with violence, use force, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 1010, “Ag.” 1509 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1160, etc.; πρὸς τὸ λαμπρὸν ὁ φθόνος βιάζεται “Tragica Adespota” 547.12 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to δικάζομαι, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.77 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; β. διὰ φυλάκων force one's way, [[ [prev. author] 7.83 ] Refs]; β. ἐς τὸ ἔξω, β. εἴσω,[[ [prev. work] 69, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.3.69; δρόμῳ β. 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.63 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: with infinitive, β. πρὸς τὸν λόφον ἐλθεῖν [[ [prev. author] 7.79 ] Refs]; βιαζόμενοι βλάπτειν using every effort to hurt me, [[ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 9.16 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; but βιαζόμενοιμὴ ἀποδιδόναι refusing with violence to repay, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.3.12: especially in ] Refs 5th c.BC+]participle, ἵνα βιασάμενοι ἐκπλεύσωσι may sail out by forcing their way, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.67; συνεξέρχονται βιασάμενοι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.8.11 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐπὶ μᾶλλον ἔτι β. (of a famine) grow worse and worse, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.94. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.4 contend or argue vehemently, with infinitive, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 246b; β. τὸ μὴ ὂν ὡς ἔστι κατά τι [prev. work] 241d ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: absolutely, persist in assertion, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.205. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
