achieve by force; carry one's point that
Ancient Greek word, found 54 times in the texts on Socratos.
Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.3.2: … ις, καθ’ ἑκάστους μὲν ἤδη τῇ ὁμιλίᾳ μᾶλλον καλεῖσθαι Ἕλληνας, οὐ μέντοι πολλοῦ γε χρόνου [ἐδύνατο] καὶ ἅπασιν ἐκνικῆσαι.
Euripides, Ion 629: εἴποις ἂν ὡς ὁ χρυσὸς ἐκνικᾷ τάδε,
Plutarch, Antony 63.5: οὐ μὴν ἀλλὰ ἐξενίκησε Κλεοπάτρα διὰ τῶν νεῶν κριθῆναι τὸν πόλεμον, ἤδη πρὸς φυγὴν ὁρῶσα, καὶ τιθεμένη τὰ καθʼ ἑαυτήν, οὐχ ὅπου πρὸς …
All forms of ἐκνικάω