ἀνάγκης (anankes)

ἀνάγκης is an Ancient Greek form of ἀνάγκη, meaning “necessity, force”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun.

Found 626 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.430: ῥίγιον ἀνθρώποισι κακῆς ἐπικείσετʼ ἀνάγκης,

Plutarch, De Sera Numinis Vindicta 25: … οῦ Θεσπεσίου συγγενὴς ʽ οὐδὲν γὰρ οὕτω κωλύει τὰς ψυχὰς ὀνόματι τῶν ἀνθρώπων προσαγορεύειν̓ ὡς Ἀδράστεια μέν, Ἀνάγκης καὶ Διὸς θυγάτηρ, ἐπὶ πᾶσι τιμωρὸς ἀνωτάτω τέτακται τοῖς ἀδικήμασι· καὶ τῶν πονηρῶν οὔτε μέγας οὐδεὶς οὕτως ο …

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.