ἀκοά

From LSJ

πείθεται πᾶς ἥδιον ἢ βιάζεται (Dio Cassius, Historiae Romanae 8.36.3) → it's always more pleasant to be persuaded than to be forced

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English (Slater)

ᾰκοά hearing i. e. what is heard ἀστῶν δ' ἀκοὰ κρύφιον θυμὸν βαρύνει μάλιστ ἐσλοῖσιν ἐπ ἀλλοτρίοις (P. 1.84) εἴπερ τι φιλεῖς ἀκοὰν ἁδεῖαν αἰεὶ κλύειν (P. 1.90) βαιὰ δ' ἐν μακροῖσι ποικίλλειν ἀκοὰ σοφοῖς (ἀκόνα coni. Wil.) (P. 9.78)

Russian (Dvoretsky)

ἀκοά: ἡ дор. = ἀκοή.