Biê
“force, might”
idea · 2 works · 9 mentions · 18 anchored passages
biê · force · brute force · force [biê] · forceful violence · insolence · might · might [biê] · more force · violence
in the texts
Odyssey
Force or might, a term used explicitly in Greek at two points to describe both a threat to the Phaeacians and the basis of royal authority.
we are called Phaeacians, and I am daughter to Alkinoos, in whom the whole strength and power [ biê] of the state is vested.
Now the Cyclopes were stronger in force [ biê] than they and plundered them, so their king Nausithoos moved them thence and settled them in Scheria, far from all other people.
I am your father, on whose account you grieve and suffer so much at the hands of violent [ biê] men.
Iliad
The Greek concept of physical force or might, explicitly glossed in the translation as a quality Paris is accused of lacking.
You used to brag that you were a better man with might [ biê] of hands and spear than Menelaos.
Will not the Achaeans mock at us and say that we have sent one to champion us who is fair to see but who has neither wit nor force [ biê]?
" On this she left him, still furious at the loss of her that had been taken by force [ biê] from him.