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βία , Ion. βίη [ι^], ἡ: Ep. dat.
A.“βίηφι” Od.6.6:—bodily strength, force, Hom., etc.; “χειρῶν βία” B. 10.91:—in Hom., periphr. of strong men, “βίη Ἡρακληείη” Il.2.658, where the part. masc. πέρσας follows, cf. 11.690; βίη Ἐτεοκληείη, Ἰφικλείη, 4.386, Od.11.290, etc.; “βίη Διομήδεος” Il.5.781; also “ἲς . . βίης Ἠρακληείης” Hes.Th.332: so in Lyr. and Trag., “Πέλοπος βία” B.5.181; Τυδέως βία, Πολυνείκους β., A.Th. 571,577; “φίλτατ᾽ Αἰγίσθου β.” Id.Ch.893; θήρειος β., = Κένταυροι, S. Tr.1059.
2. personified, “Κράτος Βία τε” A.Pr.12.
3. of the mind, “οὐκ ἔστι βίη φρεσίν” Il.3.45.
b. of an argument, “βίαν οὐκ ἔχειν πρὸς <τὸ> ἀποδειξαι” Phld.Sign.9.
II. act of violence, “ὕβρις τε βίη τε” Od.15.329: mostly in pl., “κείνων γε βίας ἀποτείσεαι” 11.117; “βίας ὑποδέγμενος ἀνδρῶν” 16.189; “βίαι ἀνέμων” Il.16.213.
2. βίᾳ τινός against one's will, in spite of him, A.Th.746 (lyr.), S.Ant.79, Th.1.43, etc.; “β. φρενῶν” A.Th.612; “β. καρδίας” Id.Supp.798; β. alone as Adv., perforce, Od.15.231, B.17.10, A.Pr.74, al.; “βίῃ ἐπειρᾶτο” Hdt. 6.5; opp. κατὰ φύσιν, Arist.Ph.215a1; also “πρὸς βίαν τινός” A.Eu.5; “πρὸς βίαν ἄγειν τινά” Id.Pr.210, cf. S.OT805, Eup.8.10 D., Ar.V.443, etc.; opp. ἑκών, Pl.Phdr.236d; “ἐκ βίας” S.Ph.563, al., Herod.5.58; “ὑπὸ βίης” Hdt.6.107; “ἀπὸ βίας” D.S.20.51; of Zeus, “εὐμενεῖ βία κτίσας” A.Supp.1068(lyr.).
3. in Att. law, rape, βίας δίκη Sch.Pl.R.464e; “βίᾳ αἰσχύνεσθαί τινα” Lys.1.32.
4. = Lat. vis, βίας γραφή D C.37.31, cf. 33; “μαρτύρομαι τὴν βίαν” POxy.1120.11 (iii A. D.). (Cf. Skt. jyā´ jiyā´ 'preponderating power', jināti 'oppress'.)
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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