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ἀέκων

aekon

involuntary, constrained

Appears 94 times across Plato's dialogues.

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Dictionary (LSJ)

ἀέκων, Ep.and Ion.; Att. and Trag. contr. ἄκων [ᾱ], ουσα, ον (uncontr. form also in IG 1.61 (law of Draco), A. Supp. 39 (anap.), sts. found in codd. of Hdt., as 4.120,164):—A. involuntary, constrained, of persons, ἀέκοντος ἐμεῖο Il. 1.310; ἑκὼν ἀέκοντί γε θυμῷ 4.43; πόλλʼ ἀέκων 11.557; opp. βουλόμενος, Hp. VC 11; τὼ δʼ οὐκ ἀέκοντε πετέσθην (v.l. ἄκοντε) Il. 5.366, Od. 3.484; κάρτα ἀ. Hdt. 9.111; ἀέκουσι (v.l. ἀεκούσια) δάκρυα παραρρεῖ Hp. Epid. 1.19: contr. first in h.Cer. 413; ἄκοντος Διός invito Jove, A. Pr. 771; repeated, ἄκοντά σʼ ἄκων προσπασσαλεύσω ib.19, cf. 671; ἄ. ἀκούειν οὓς ἑκὼν εἶπεν λόγους S. Fr. 929, cf. Ant. 276; μηδένα τῶνδʼ ἀέκοντα μένειν κατέρυκε Thgn. 467. Adv. ἀκόντως unwillingly, ὁμολογεῖν Pl. Prt. 333b, cf. Hp.Mi. 374d; οὐκ ἀ. ἀλλὰ προθύμως ἐπείσθησαν X. HG 4.8.5. II. Poet., like ἀκούσιος, of acts or their consequences, involuntary, κακὰ ἑκόντα κοὐκ ἄ. S. OT 1230; ἔργων ἀ. Id. OC 240 (lyr.), cf. 977.
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