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.
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.
we are called Phaeacians, and I am daughter to Alkinoos, in whom the whole strength and power [ biê] of the state is vested.
If we face such numbers as this, you may have bitter cause to rue your coming, and your violent revenge [ biê].
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]?
It was you, goddess, who delivered him by calling to Olympus the hundred-handed one whom gods call Briareus, but men Aigaion, for he has more force [ biê] even than his father;