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ἀκοῦσαι (akousai)

ἀκοῦσαι is an Ancient Greek form of ἀκούω, meaning “to hear, listen”. It is the aorist active infinitive.

Found 612 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.1092: πολλαὶ ναιετάουσιν, ἵνʼ οὐδέ περ οὔνομʼ ἀκοῦσαι

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.11.113: Στίλπων Μεγαρεὺς τῆς Ἑλλάδος διήκουσε μὲν τῶν ἀπʼ Εὐκλείδου τινῶν· οἱ δὲ καὶ αὐτοῦ Εὐκλείδου ἀκοῦσαί φασιν αὐτόν, ἀλλὰ καὶ Θρασυμάχου τοῦ Κορινθίου, ὃς ἦν Ἰχθύα γνώριμος, καθά φησιν Ἡρακλείδης. τοσοῦτον δʼ εὑρε …

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 16.20: τίς δέ κεν ἄλλου ἀκούσαι; ἅλις πάντεσσιν Ὅμηρος.

All forms of ἀκούω (conjugation 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.