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ἐπανάγκης

ἐπανάγκης, it is necessary

ἐπᾰνάγκ-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 IG 2(2).1100.50, etc.; τὰ ἐπάναγκες Act.Ap. 15.28.

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