ἀέκων
Νέος ἂν πονήσῃς, γῆρας ἕξεις εὐθαλές → Iuvenis labora: senium habebis floridum → Wenn jung du schuftest, wird dein Alter blühend sein
English (LSJ)
Ep.and Ion.; Att. and Trag. contr. ἄκων [ᾱ], 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.
