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ἀκρο-άομαι [α^ Ar.Ra.315], fut. -άσομαι [α_] Pl.Ap.37d, etc.: aor. ἠκροα_σάμην Ar.l.c., etc.: pf.
A.“ἠκρόα_μαι” Arist.HA537b3: 2sg. plpf. “ἠκρόασο” Antiph.93 ἠκροᾶσο: ἠκροῶ, wrongly, AB98): aor. ἠκροάθην (in pass. sense) J.AJ17.5.2, Aristid.1.30 J.:—hearken, listen to: c. gen. pers., Antipho 5.4, Pl.Grg.499b: c. acc. rei, Th.6.89, etc.: c. gen. rei, Th. 2.21, 6.17: c. gen. pers. et acc. rei, Pl.Hp.Ma.285d.
2. abs., listen, Hp.Int.35, Ar.Lys.503, Pherecr.154, Lys.19.3; ὁ ἀκροώμενος hearer, Eup.94.7; esp. of those who hear lectures, X.Smp.3.6; also, reader, Philostr.VA5.14: c. gen., “ἀνὴρ Ἀριστοτέλους ἠκροαμένος” Str. 13.1.54, cf. Plu.Caes.3.
II. attend to, obey, “τινός” Th.3.27, cf. Lys.20.9, Pl.Grg.488c: abs., “ἐνδοιαστῶς ἀ.” Th.6.10.
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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