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ἀκόλουθ-ος , ον, (ἀ- copul., κέλευθος, cf. Pl.Cra.405d)
A.following, attending on, mostly as Subst., follower, attendant, IG1.1, Ar.Av.73; “ὅτοισι παῖς ἀ. ἐστιν” Eup.159.3; freq.in Att. Prose, Antipho 2.1.4, Th.6.28, 7.75, Pl.Smp.203c, etc.; οἱ ἀ. camp-followers, X.Cyr.5.2.36: fem., Plu. Caes.10: metaph., “Δίκα Εὐνομίας ἀ.” B.14.55.
2. following after, c. gen., “πλάτα . . Νηρῄδων ἀ.” S.OC719 (lyr.).
3. following, consequent upon, in conformity with, c. gen., “τἀκόλουθα τῶν ῥακῶν” Ar. Ach.438, cf. Pl.Phd.111c: mostly c. dat., Id Lg.716c, Ti.88d; “ἀκόλουθα τούτοις πράττειν” D.18.257; “ἀ. τοῖς εἰρημένοις ἐστὶ τὸ διῃρῆσθαι” Arist.Pol.1321b3; consistent, “οὐδὲν ἀ. αὑτῷ λέγει” Demetr.Eloc.153; of persons, conforming, “τῇ ὑμετέρἁ βουλήσει” PTeb.44.34 (ii B. C.): abs., correspondent, Lys.21.10; “τἆλλα πάντα τὰ ἀ.” Hyp.Eux.25; “λόγους πράξεις ἀ.” Epicur.Sent.25; consistent with one another, X.An. 2.4.19. Adv. -θως in accordance with, “τοῖς νόμοις” D.44.67; “ἀ. τῇ φύσει ζῆν” Chrysipp.Stoic.3.4, cf. Phld.Piet.100, D.S.4.17: abs., consistently, Metrod.Fr.17, Aristid.2.28 J., Plot.4.3.20.
4. in accordance with nature, Zeno Stoic.1.55.
5. Gramm., analogical, A.D.Pron.11.21, al. Adv.-θως analogically, Id.Synt.159.6.
6. in Logic, consequent, περὶ ἀκολούθων, title of work by Chrysipp . . Stoic. 2.5, cf. 69; τοῦτο γὰρ ἀ. that follows, Phld.Ir.p.84 W.—Used once by S. l.c.; otherwise only in Com. and Prose.
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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