ἀκούω: Difference between revisions

|mdlsjtxt=[Root ακοϝ]<br /><b class="num">I.</b> to [[hear]], Hom., etc. —Construct., [[properly]], c. acc. of [[thing]] [[heard]], gen. of pers. from whom it is [[heard]], [[ταῦτα]] Καλυψοῦς [[ἤκουσα]] Od.; the gen. pers. may be omitted, ἀκήκοας λόγον Soph., or the acc. rei, ἄκουε τοῦ θανόντος Soph.:—often [[however]] c. gen. rei, to [[have]] [[hearing]] of a [[thing]].<br /><b class="num">2.</b> c. gen. objecti, to [[hear]] of, [[hear]] [[tell]] of, ἀκ. πατρός Od.; so c. acc., Od.:—so, ἀκ. [[περί]] τινος.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> the pers. from whom the [[thing]] is [[heard]] takes a prep., ἀκούειν τι ἀπό, ἔκ, [[παρά]], πρός τινος, Il., [[attic]]<br /><b class="num">II.</b> to [[know]] by [[hearsay]], [[εἴ που]] ἀκούεις Od.; so Plat., etc.<br /><b class="num">III.</b> absol. to [[hearken]], [[give]] ear, to [[begin]] a [[proclamation]], ἀκούετε λεώι [[hear]], O [[people]].<br /><b class="num">IV.</b> to [[listen]] to, [[give]] ear to, Il.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> to [[obey]], c. gen., or [[more]] [[rarely]] c. dat., Il.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> to [[hear]] and [[understand]], κλύοντες οὐκ ἤκουον Aesch.<br /><b class="num">V.</b> in [[pass]]. [[sense]], with an adv., to [[hear]] [[oneself]] called, be called so and so, like Lat. audire, [[κακῶς]] ἀκ. πρός τινος to be ill [[spoken]] of by one, Hdt.; εὖ, [[κακῶς]], ἄριστα ἀκ., Lat. [[bene]], [[male]] audire, Hdt., [[attic]]<br /><b class="num">2.</b> with a Noun, ἀκούειν [[κακός]], [[καλός]] Soph., Plat.; κόλακες ἀκούουσι Dem.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> c. acc. rei, ἀκ. κακά to [[have]] [[evil]] [[spoken]] of one, Ar.; φήμας κακὰς ἤκουσεν Eur.