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μεταγιγνώσκω , Ion. and later Μεταγειτν-γι_νώσκω , fut. -γνώσομαι: aor. μετέγνων:—
A.find out after, i. e. too late, ἄταν . . μεταγνούς dub. in A. Supp.111 (lyr.).
II. change one's mind, repent, abs., Hdt.1.40, 86; μετέγνων, ἔγνων δὲ . . changed my mind and determined . . , Id.7.15; “μεταγνοὺς ἂν ὀρθῶς βουλεύσαιτο” Antipho 5.91, cf. Th.4.92, Pl.Phdr. 231a, Lys.19.53, D.18.153, etc.; οὔκουν ἔνεστι καὶ μεταγνῶναι πάλιν; S.Ph.1270.
2. c. acc. rei, change one's mind about, repent of, “μετέγνων καὶ τὰ πρόσθ᾽ εἰρημένα” E.Med.64; μ. τὰ προδεδογμένα alter or repeal a previous decree, Th.3.40, cf. Luc.Ner.4.
b. c. dat. rei, “μ. τῷ φόνῳ” Philostr.Ep.16.
3. c. inf., change one's mind so as to do something different, “τὸ παντότολμον φρονεῖν μετέγνω” A.Ag.221 (lyr.); “ἐν δὲ τῇ ὑστεραίᾳ μετέγνωσαν Κερκυραίοις ξυμμαχίαν μὲν μὴ ποιήσασθαι” Th.1.44; μ. ὡς . . change one's mind and think that . . , X.Cyr.5.5.40.
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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    • Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 221
    • Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens, 111
    • Antiphon, On the murder of Herodes, 91
    • Demosthenes, On the Crown, 153
    • Euripides, Medea, 64
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.15
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.40
    • Lysias, On the Property of Aristophanes, 53
    • Plato, Phaedrus, 231a
    • Sophocles, Philoctetes, 1270
    • Thucydides, Histories, 3.40
    • Thucydides, Histories, 4.92
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 5.5.40
    • Thucydides, Histories, 1.44
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