ἀέκων

ἀέκων, [dialect] Ep.and [dialect] Ion.; [dialect] Att. and Trag. [var] contr. [full] ἄκων [pron. full] [ᾱ], ουσα, ον (un[var] contr. 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

: [var] 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.