ἀεκούσιος, ον
(also α, ον [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Syr.D.” 18)] Refs 2nd c.AD+], Ionic dialect and Epic dialect (also in anapaest meter, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1263)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Attic dialect contraction ἀκούσιος [ᾱ], ον, also in [[ 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 240] Refs 3rd c.AD+]:— against the will, constrained, of acts or their consequences, καὶ τῷ οὔ κως ἀεκ. ἐγίνετο τὸ ποιεύμενον[[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.162; τλήσομαι.. ἀεκούσια πολλὰ βίαια 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 1343; ἐς ἀ. ἀνάγκας πίπτειν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.82; πόνοι 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus [same place] ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; often in Attic dialect of involuntary offences, ἀ. φόνος[[ 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 3.2.6] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πράκτορες τῶν ἀκουσίων [[[prev. work],compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 733d, 864a, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1109b35, +others; τὰ μὲν ἀ. ἁπλῇ, τὰ δὲ ἑκούσια διπλῇ “IG” 1.1] Refs 5th c.BC+]. adverb -ίως[[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.43, 4th c.AD: Severus Medicus cited in 4th c.AD: Eusebius Caesariensis Scriptor Ecclesiasticus “Praeparatio Evangelica” 13.17. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II of persons, only in adverb ἀκουσίως involuntarily, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.8, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 62c] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ. ἀποθανεῖν, opposed to ἑκουσίως ἀποκτείνειν, [[ 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 1.5] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ. τινὶ ἀφῖχθαι to have come as an unwelcome guest, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.31.] Refs 5th c.BC+]