Πειθανάγκη
persuasion-compulsion, forcible persuasion
Translated by Catharine Roth1 Jan 2012Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] persuasion [associated] with force.1
"[He] suspecting that [they?] would bring forcible persuasion to bear on the Leucadians to assent to what was being ordered by them."2
"He seduced many of the women by forcible persuasion, for he was so lecherous."3
"And [he] having yielded to Thessalian compulsion-persuasion, himself killing his own master."4
"[He] suspecting that [they?] would bring forcible persuasion to bear on the Leucadians to assent to what was being ordered by them."2
"He seduced many of the women by forcible persuasion, for he was so lecherous."3
"And [he] having yielded to Thessalian compulsion-persuasion, himself killing his own master."4
Greek original · Adler’s text
Πειθανάγκη· ἡ μετὰ βίας πειθώ. ὑπολαμβάνων διὰ τούτων πειθανάγκην προσάξειν τοῖς Λευκαδίοις τοῦ συγχωρεῖν τοῖς ὑπ' αὐτῶν ἐπιταττομένοις. πολλὰς δὲ τῶν γυναικῶν τῇ πειθανάγκῃ κατήγαγεν· οὕτω γὰρ ἦν λάγνος. καὶ εἶξα τῇ Θετταλικῇ πειθανάγκῃ κτείνας τὸν αὐτὸς αὑτοῦ δεσπότην.
Betacode
*peiqana/gkh: h( meta\ bi/as peiqw/. u(polamba/nwn dia\ tou/twn peiqana/gkhn prosa/cein toi=s *leukadi/ois tou= sugxwrei=n toi=s u(p' au)tw=n e)pitattome/nois. polla\s de\ tw=n gunaikw=n th=| peiqana/gkh| kath/gagen: ou(/tw ga\r h)=n la/gnos. kai\ ei)=ca th=| *qettalikh=| peiqana/gkh| ktei/nas to\n au)to\s au(tou= despo/thn.
Notes (4)
- 1The headword is a compound noun, attested earliest in Polybius (and found also in Cicero, Letters to Atticus 9.13.4). ↩
- 2Polybius fr. 194 Büttner-Wobst. ↩
- 3From Malchus fr. 21 Cresci, quoted more fully at lambda 646. ↩
- 4Julian, Encomium on the Emperor Constantine 25.32 Bidez, with the participle
ei)/cas instead of the Suda'sei)=ca . On "Thessalian compulsion-persuasion," see LSJ s.v.peiqana/gkh , comparing the expression "Hobson's Choice", and under theta 291. ↩
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