ἀκούσιον (akousion)

ἀκούσιον is an Ancient Greek form of ἀκούσιος, meaning “involuntary, unwilling”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun or adjective.

Found 82 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.40.1: ‘οὔκουν δεῖ προθεῖναι ἐλπίδα οὔτε λόγῳ πιστὴν οὔτε χρήμασιν ὠνητήν, ὡς ξυγγνώμην ἁμαρτεῖν ἀνθρωπίνως λήψονται. ἄκοντες μὲν γὰρ οὐκ ἔβλαψαν, εἰδότες δὲ ἐπεβούλευσαν· ξύγγνωμον δ’ ἐστὶ τὸ ἀκούσιον.

Lucian of Samosata, Juppiter Confutatus 18: … αὶ ὁσίους καὶ κατʼ ἀρετὴν βεβιωκότας. τίνος ἕνεκα, ὦ Ζεῦ; διότι οἱ μὲν τιμῆς, οἱ δὲ κολάσεως ἄξιοι. εἰ δέ τις ἀκούσιόν τι δεινὸν ἐργάσαιτο, κολάζεσθαι καὶ τοῦτον δικαιοῖ; οὐδαμῶς. οὐδʼ ἄρα εἴ τις ἄκων τι ἀγαθὸν ἔδρασεν, οὐδὲ τοῦ …

All forms of ἀκούσιος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.