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βίᾱ

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: βίᾱ βίας

Structure: βι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. bodily strength, force
  2. act of violence

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἐν γὰρ δὴ τούτῳ πείθει τοὺσ Ἀθηναίουσ τῶν μὲν ἀλλοτρίων μὴ ἐπιθυμεῖν, ἐπὶ δὲ τοῖσ παροῦσι στέργειν, καὶ τῶν μὲν μικρῶν πόλεων ὡσπερανεὶ κτημάτων φείδεσθαι, τοὺσ δὲ συμμάχουσ τε καὶ εὐεργεσίαισ πειρᾶσθαι κατέχειν, ἀλλὰ μὴ ταῖσ ἀνάγκαισ μηδὲ ταῖσ βίαισ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 72)
  • πολλαχοῦ δὲ ὁ Ξενοφῶν πολλαῖσ βίαισ καὶ Δημοσθενικαῖσ κατὰ τὰσ ἐννοίασ χρῆται, μόνῃ δὲ τῇ μεταχειρίσει διαλλάσσει, ὡσ καὶ ἐν τῇ Ἀναβάσει λογισμούσ τινασ λέγων περὶ τοῦ Τισσαφέρνουσ, ὅτι οὐκ ἐπιβουλεύει τοῖσ Ἕλλησιν, ἐπειδὴ ἄπιστόν ἐστι τὸ πρόσωπον πρὸσ τὸ βουληθῆναι ἐπιβουλεῦσαι, καὶ οὐκ ἔχει ἐκ τῆσ κρίσεωσ αὐτὸ συστῆσαι, μεταβὰσ ἐκ τῆσ δυνάμεωσ αὐτὸ πιστοῦται, εἰ δὲ δυνάμενοι κακῶσ ὑμᾶσ δρᾶν οὐ ποιοῦμεν, δῆλον ὅτι οὐδὲ βουλόμεθα. (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , chapter 13 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. bodily strength

  2. act of violence

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