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42 entries for necessity

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
ε3442Εὐερμίαgood fortune, a stroke of luck from Hermes… elsewhere: "welcoming the good fortune of the opportunity and, with necessity summoning, not yielding to cowardice."Matched in translationhighshort
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
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
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
κ1632Κινδυνεύειis in danger, is at risk… when the many happen to fight against them out of necessity, they should not be put at risk by bad luck; rather they should consider it impossible to be in danger, with the attack …Matched in noteshighshort
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
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
ε1370Ἐνθύμημαenthymeme, enthymema… different from the supposed things turns out to be of necessity through them" (Topica 100a25-27). But this is the scientific or demonstrative syllogism, i.e the one which starts from what is primary and true …Matched in noteshighmedium
ει142Εἱμαρμένηfate… p.13) in a chapter devoted to fate. The goddess Ananke (Necessity) is said to have given birth to Adrastea, who bears a name from the same root of this word. At the beginning of …Matched in noteshighmedium
κ1640Κίνησιςmotion, movement… But if the primary mover is incorporeal, there is no necessity that it is moved when moving something else, since every divine mover is unmovable as well, in having a standing substance and power …Matched in translationhighlong
κ2161Κοτίνου στεφάνῳwith a wreath of wild olive… the ridges and winding hollows of Arcadia. At Eurystheus' commands, necessity imposed by his father Zeus pressed him to fetch the doe with the golden horns that once Taygeta dedicated to Artemis Orthosia and …Matched in noteshighmedium