ἄκουσαν (akousan)

ἄκουσαν is an Ancient Greek form of ἀκούω, meaning “to hear, listen”. It is the 3rd person plural aorist active indicative.

It can also be a form of ἀέκων, “unwilling”.

Found 42 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Orestes 1530: ὀξὺ γὰρ βοῆς ἀκοῦσαν Ἄργος ἐξεγείρεται.

Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 1149: ἔγημας ἄκουσάν με κἄλαβες βίᾳ,

Plutarch, Cimon 6.4: … , διὰ σκότους καὶ σιωπῆς τῇ κλίνῃ προσιοῦσαν ἤδη τοῦ Παυσανίου καθεύδοντος, ἐμπεσεῖν καὶ ἀνατρέψαι τὸ λυχνίον ἄκουσαν·

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.