μεταγιγνώσκω: Difference between revisions
Εὐφήμει, ὦ ἄνθρωπε· ἁσμενέστατα μέντοι αὐτὸ ἀπέφυγον, ὥσπερ λυττῶντά τινα καὶ ἄγριον δεσπότην ἀποδράς → Hush, man, most gladly have I escaped this thing you talk of, as if I had run away from a raging and savage beast of a master
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English (LSJ)
Ion. and later Μεταγειτν-γῑνώσκω, 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.
