ἀέκων,
Epic dialect and Ionic dialect; Attic dialect and Trag. contraction ἄκων [ᾱ], ουσα, ον (uncontraction form also in [[ “IG” 1.61 (law of Draco), 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 39 (_anapaest meter_)] Refs 4th c.BC+], sometimes found in codices of [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus, as 4.120, 164)] Refs 5th c.BC+]:— involuntary, constrained, of persons, ἀέκοντος ἐμεῖο[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.310; ἑκὼν ἀέκοντί γε θυμῷ 4.43; πόλλ᾽ ἀέκων 11.557] Refs 8th c.BC+]; opposed to βουλόμενος, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ τῶν ἐν κεφαλη—ͅ τρωμάτων” 11] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὼ δ᾽ οὐκ ἀέκοντε πετέσθην (variant{ἄκοντε}) [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.366, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.484; κάρτα ἀ. 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.111] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἀέκουσι (variant{ἀεκούσια}) δάκρυα παραρρεῖ[[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 1.19] Refs 5th c.BC+]: contraction first in [[ “hymnus ad Cererem” 413] Refs]; ἄκοντος Διός invito Jove, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 771; repeated, ἄκοντά σ᾽ ἄκων προσπασσαλεύσω [prev. work] 19, compare 671; ἄ. ἀκούειν οὓς ἑκὼν εἶπεν λόγους 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 929, compare “Ant.” 276; μηδένα τῶνδ᾽ ἀέκοντα μένειν κατέρυκε 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 467. ] Refs 6th c.BC+]adverb ἀκόντως unwillingly, ὁμολογεῖν[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 333b, compare “Hp.Mi.” 374d; οὐκ ἀ. ἀλλὰ προθύμως ἐπείσθησαν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.8.5. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II poetical, like{ἀκούσιος}, of acts or their consequences, involuntary, κακὰ ἑκόντα κοὐκ ἄ.[[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1230; ἔργων ἀ. [prev. author] “OC” 240 (Lyric poetry), compare 977.] Refs 5th c.BC+]