ἀνάγκαις (anankais)

ἀνάγκαις is an Ancient Greek form of ἀνάγκη, meaning “necessity, force”. It is the dative plural feminine noun.

Found 71 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.57.11: καὶ οἵδε μὲν τῷ Ἰονίῳ κόλπῳ ὁριζόμενοι· Ἰταλιωτῶν δὲ Θούριοι καὶ Μεταπόντιοι ἐν τοιαύταις ἀνάγκαις τότε στασιωτικῶν καιρῶν κατειλημμένοι ξυνεστράτευον, καὶ Σικελιωτῶν Νάξιοι καὶ Καταναῖοι, βαρβάρων δὲ Ἐγεσταῖ …

Zonaras, Epitome historiarum (Vol. 1) pref_ducangii·17: … αντάπασιν απηγόρευνται2) τὸν κατ’ εἰκόνα καὶ γὰρ θεοῦ πλασθέντα λογικὸν αυτεξουσιον ᾶνθρωπον· οὐ γὰρ φυσικαῖς ανάγκαις ὑποκεῖσθαι καταδεξώμεθα·

All forms of ἀνάγκη (declension 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.