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προσα^ναγκ-άζω ,
A.force or constrain besides, Th.7.18; compress too tightly, of a bandage, Hp.Off.8 (Pass.); force bones together, opp. ἀπαναγκάζω, Id.Art.14.
II. increase the severity of exercises, ἀπὸ κούφων π. Id.Vict.3.68; of military training, “τῇ ἄλλῃ μελέτῃ” Th. 6.72.
III. c. acc. et inf., force one to do a thing, “βίῃ με προσηνάγκασσε πάσασθαι” h.Cer.413; π. τινὰ παρεῖναι, μένειν, ὁμολογεῖν, φιλεῖν, X.Cyr.8.1.17, Pl.Smp.217d, 223d, Prt.346b: the inf. is freq. omitted, τοὺς μὴ δεχομένους τὰς σπονδὰς π. (sc. δέχεσθαι) Th.5.42; π. τινά τι force him also (to do) something, Pl.Smp.181e.
IV. constrain or compel by argument, “τῷ λόγῳ τινά” Id.Phlb.13b, cf. Gal.9.936.
2. π. τι εἶναι prove that a thing necessarily is, Pl.Lg.710a, Plt.284b.
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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