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ἀέκων , Ep.and Ion.; Att. and Trag. contr. ἄκων [α_], ουσα, ον (uncontr. form also in IG1.61 (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; “πόλλ᾽ ἀέκων” 11.557; opp. βουλόμενος, Hp.VC11; τὼ δ᾽ 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 σ᾽ ἄκων προσπασσαλεύσω ib.19, cf. 671; “ἄ. ἀκούειν οὓς ἑκὼν εἶπεν λόγους” S.Fr.929, cf. Ant.276; “μηδένα τῶνδ᾽ ἀέκοντα μένειν κατέρυκε” Thgn.467. Adv. ἀκόντως unwillingly, “ὁμολογεῖν” Pl.Prt.333b, cf. Hp.Mi.374d; “οὐκ ἀ. ἀλλὰ προθύμως ἐπείσθησαν” X.HG4.8.5.
II. Poet., like ἀκούσιος, of acts or their consequences, involuntary, “κακὰ ἑκόντα κοὐκ ἄ.” S.OT 1230; “ἔργων ἀ.” Id.OC240 (lyr.), cf. 977.
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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