βιάσασθαι (biasasthai)

βιάσασθαι is an Ancient Greek form of βιάζω, meaning “force, constrain”. It is the aorist middle infinitive.

It can also be a form of βιάω, “use force, constrain”.

Found 100 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.38.5: καλὸν δ’ ἦν, εἰ καὶ ἡμαρτάνομεν, τοῖσδε μὲν εἶξαι τῇ ἡμετέρᾳ ὀργῇ, ἡμῖν δὲ αἰσχρὸν βιάσασθαι τὴν τούτων μετριότητα·

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 10.23.3: … τανάλωντο ἃς οἴκοθεν ἔφερον, οὔτε μεταστρατοπεδεύσασθαι τῶν πολεμίων ἀντικαθημένων καὶ κωλυόντων τὰς ἐξόδους. βιάσασθαί τε προελόμενοι καὶ προελθόντες εἰς μάχην ἀνεκρούσθησαν καὶ πολλὰς πληγὰς λαβόντες εἰς τὸν αὐτὸν κατεκλείσθησα …

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.