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ἐπα^νάγκ-ης , used only in neut.:
1. ἐπάναγκές [ἐστι] it is compulsory, necessary, c. inf., And.1.1, Pl.Lg.878e, etc.; μηδὲν ἐ. ἔστω let there be no compulsion, ib.765a, cf.Smp.176e.
2. as Adv., on compulsion, ἐ. κομῶντες wearing long hair by fixed custom, Hdt.1.82; ἐ. λέγειν, ἐντίθεσθαι, Aeschin.1.24, D.34.7; “ἐ. λαβεῖν” Men.576; “ἐ. βουλὴν ἀθροισάτω” IG22.1100.50, etc.; “τὰ ἐπάναγκες” Act.Ap.15.28.
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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    • Aeschines, Against Timarchus, 24
    • Andocides, On the Mysteries, 1
    • Demosthenes, Against Phormio, 7
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.82
    • Plato, Laws, 765a
    • Plato, Laws, 878e
    • Plato, Symposium, 176e
    • New Testament, Acts, 15.28
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