ἄκουσον (akouson)

ἄκουσον is an Ancient Greek form of ἀκούω, meaning “to hear, listen”. It is the 2nd person singular aorist active imperative.

Found 137 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 5.66c: ἴθʼ ὦ ξένε μικκὸν ἄκουσον

Euripides, Ion 633: ἃ δʼ ἐνθάδʼ εἶχον ἀγάθʼ ἄκουσόν μου, πάτερ·

Lucian of Samosata, Dialogi mortuorum 24.1: … τε κατὰ τάχος εἰς τὸ Ἠλύσιον πεδίον καὶ τὰς μακάρων νήσους κατοικεῖτε, ἀνθ' ὧν δίκαια ἐποιεῖτε παρὰ τὸν βίον. Ἄκουσον, ὦ Μίνως, εἴ σοι δίκαια δόξω λέγειν. Νῦν ἀκούσω αὖθις; οὐ γὰρ ἐξελήλεγξαι, ὦ Σώστρατε, πονηρὸς ὢν καὶ τοσούτο …

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.