βία
I. "bodily strength, force, power, might", Hom., etc.; periphr. βίη Ἡρακληείη "the strength" of Hercules, i. e. the strong Hercules, Il.; βίη Διομήδεος id=Il.; Τυδέως βία, Πολυνείκους β. Aesch., etc.
2. of the mind, Il.
II. "force, an act of violence", Od.; in pl., id=Od.; in attic, βίαι τινός "against" one's "will, in spite of" him, Aesch., Thuc., etc.; βίαι φρενῶν Aesch.; also βίαι alone as an adv., "perforce", Od., etc.; so, πρὸς βίαν τινός and πρὸς βίαν alone, Aesch.