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Originally Posted by kalwisti
In case it might be helpful, I am pasting a screenshot below from the online Liddell-Scott-Jones Greek-English Lexicon. The basic meaning of "ananke" is 'force, constraint, necessity'.
Wikipedia has a brief entry on Hugo's interpretation of "ananke":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ananke..._in_literature |
I know my ancient Greek is rusty (20 years have passed since I had it on school), but I am pretty sure the Greek characters spell 'anagke', not ananke. Strange...