βιάζεσθαι (biazesthai)

βιάζεσθαι is an Ancient Greek form of βιάζω, meaning “force, constrain”. It is the present middle/passive infinitive.

Found 187 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.77.2: καὶ οὐδεὶς σκοπεῖ αὐτῶν τοῖς καὶ ἄλλοθί που ἀρχὴν ἔχουσι καὶ ἧσσον ἡμῶν πρὸς τοὺς ὑπηκόους μετρίοις οὖσι διότι τοῦτο οὐκ ὀνειδίζεται· βιάζεσθαι γὰρ οἷς ἂν ἐξῇ, δικάζεσθαι οὐδὲν προσδέονται.

Procopius, De Bellis 3.7.18: Ἐν δὲ Βυζαντίῳ ὁ Βασιλίσκος ʽοὐ γὰρ ἔτι οἷός τε ἦν τὸν ἔρωτα τῆς βασιλείας βιάζεσθαἰ τυραννίδι ἐπιθέμενος ἐκράτησεν οὐδενὶ πόνῳ, Ζήνωνος ὁμοῦ τῇ γυναικὶ ἐς τὴν Ἰσαυρίαν, ἀφ’ ἧς δὴ ὡρμᾶτο, διαφυγόντος.

All forms of βιάζω (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.