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  1. χ461Χρεώνnecessity… he came to old age, he paid in full the necessity that is common to destiny and met with a fitting funeral." The [word] "necessity" is a participle, from xrw=, becoming xre/w, xre/on in …Matched in translationhighmedium
  2. α1827Ἀναγκαῖονnecessary… is the penis called, since it is a token of necessity. "They resorted to force out of necessity." Meaning because of necessities. Isaeus calls the [sc. Athenian] prison a)nagkai=on. But Callisthenes said a)nwgai/wn and …Matched in translationhighmedium
  3. ει144Εἱμαρμένηfate… get entangled and split apart and move round out of necessity. He claimed that because of these things, not only do [they] distribute wealth, poverty, disease, health, slavery, freedom, war, and peace, but also …Matched in translationhighmedium
  4. ε328Ἔθοςcustom, habituation… to kingship. For all people follow custom willingly and without necessity. And law is full of such justice and philanthropy that even for unfortunate people it is more useful than what is generically convenient; …Matched in translationhighmedium
  5. α3235Ἁπλότηςsimplicity… says, of old evils revolved around this mortal world from necessity, but less malicious than they are now, and simpler and not incurably burned into the souls in some depth. For great is the …Matched in translationhighmedium
  6. α4303Ἄσχολοςleisure-less… sxolh/ ["leisure"] [means] free time in customary speech. "Neither without necessity to tell someone or to write in a letter that I am without leisure, nor in such a manner continually to excuse neglect …Matched in translationhighmedium
  7. α1825Ἀναγκαία τράπεζαnecessary table, needy table… and sometimes in reference to something which happens out of necessity, as [Sophocles] here says "than this necessary fortune" of life, that is, than this misfortune. And Iamblichus [writes]: "I sent you this chain, …Matched in translationhighmedium
  8. α3350Ἀποκήρυκτονdisenfranchised, disinherited, renounced… might seem to be saying that they are such of necessity; this indeed is not the case. For it is possible that someone who is not that sort of person has become disenfranchised. At …Matched in translationhighmedium
  9. χ474Χρῆμαthing; matter… been sufficient for another to lead a life of bare necessity."Matched in translationhighmedium
  10. α4218Ἀστάθμητονuncertain… to speak, uncertain." "They endured the sea on account of necessity, reckoning that in their current constraint the uncertainty of that element offered them more security than the land." And to speak poetically, "there …Matched in translationhighmedium
  11. α3198ἈππιανόςAppianos, Appianus, Appian… and whatever part of Italy passed over to them by necessity or treachery or error, these events are told in the books on the Kelts and Libyans. Separate books were composed to narrate how …Matched in translationhighmedium
  12. χ317Χιώνsnow… of cold and with an accompanying wind, which out of necessity the whiteness follows. For it is the retention of the air that is in the clouds and the contact and coagulation in the …Matched in translationhighmedium
  13. ι503ἸώσηποςJosephus… Jesus, a wise man, if in fact it is of necessity to call him a man at all. For he was a doer of incredible deeds, a teacher of men who received the truth …Matched in translationhighmedium
  14. δ1093Δίκηςof justice… by most [poets], but it is also a result of necessity, for this is the nature of the Just. Hesiod says, on the other hand, that justice is virgin and uncorrupted not only in …Matched in translationhighmedium
  15. ε2424ἘπίκτητοςEpiktetos, Epictetus… souls which are not completely hard-hearted and tough: [e.g. the necessity of] keeping away and eschewing the worst aspects of life as much as possible, and, on the other side, of cherishing and pursuing …Matched in translationhighmedium

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