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ἀκολουθ-έω ,
A.follow one, go after or with him, freq. of soldiers and slaves:—mostly c. dat. pers., Ar.Pl.19, etc.; “ἀ. τῷ ἡγουμένῳ” Pl.R. 474c; with Preps., “ἀ. μετά τινος” Th.7.57, Pl.La.187e, Lys.2.27, etc.; “τοῖς σώμασι μετ᾽ ἐκείνων ἠκολούθουν, ταῖς δ᾽ εὐνοίαις μεθ᾽ ὑμῶν ἦσαν” Isoc.14.15; “ἀ. σύν τινι” X.An.7.5.3; “κατόπιν τινός” Ar.Pl.13: rarely c. acc., Men.558: abs., Pl.Plt.277e, Thphr.Char.18.8, etc.; ἀ. ἐφ᾽ ἁρπαγήν, of soldiers, Th.2.98; ἀκολουθῶν, ὁ, as Subst., = ἀκόλουθος 1, Men.Adul.Fr.1.
2. of stars, follow in the diurnal rotation, Autol.2.2.
II. metaph., follow, be guided by, “τῇ γνώμῃ τινός” Th. 3.38; τοῖς πράγμασιν, τοῖς τοῦ πολέμου καιροῖς, D.4.39, 24.95; obey, “τοῖς νόμοις” And.4.19: c. acc. neut., “ἀ. ἅπαντα” PLille1.26.
2. follow the thread of a discourse, Pl.Phd.107b, etc.
3. of things, follow upon, to be consequent upon, consistent with, “εὐλογία . . εὐηθείᾳ ἀ.” Id.R.400e, cf. 398d; follow analogy of, Arist.HA499a10, al.
b. abs., to be consequent, “ὡς γένους ὄντος τοῦ ἀεὶ ἀκολουθοῦντος” Top.128b4; as species to individual, GA768b13.
4. abs., ἀκολουθεῖ it follows, Id.Cat.14a31.—Not in Trag.: first in Hippon.55, with α_ (s.v.l.), elsewhere α^; takes place of ἕπομαι in later Greek.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (19):
    • Andocides, Against Alcibiades, 19
    • Aristophanes, Plutus, 13
    • Aristophanes, Plutus, 19
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    • Demosthenes, Against Timocrates, 95
    • Isocrates, Plataicus, 15
    • Lysias, Funeral Oration, 27
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    • Plato, Statesman, 277e
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    • Thucydides, Histories, 7.57
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    • Thucydides, Histories, 3.38
    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 7.5.3
    • Theophrastus, Characters, 18.8
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