ουσα, ον, v. ἄκων.

Ep. and Ion. ; Att. and Trag. contr. ἄκων [α], ουσα, ον (uncontr. form also in IG 1.61 (law of Draco), A. Supp. 39 (anap.), sts. found in codd. of Hdt., as 4.120, 164): — involuntary, constrained, of persons, ἀέκοντος ἐμεῖο Il. 1.310; ἑκὼν ἀέκοντί γε θυμῷ 4.43; πόλλ’ ἀέκων 11.557; opp. βουλόμενος, Hp. VC 11; τὼ δ’ οὐκ ἀέκοντε πετέσθην (v.l. ἄκοντε) Il. 5.366, Od. 3.484; κάρτα ἀ. Hdt. 9.111; ἀέκουσι (v.l. ἀεκούσια) δάκρυα παραρρεῖ Hp. Epid. 1.19; contr. first in h.Cer. 413; ἄκοντος Διός invito Jove, A. Pr. 771; repeated, ἄκοντά σ’ ἄκων προσπασσαλεύσω ib. 19, cf. 671; ἄ. ἀκούειν οὓς ἑκὼν εἶπεν λόγους S. Fr. 929, cf. Ant. 276; μηδένα τῶνδ’ ἀέκοντα μένειν κατέρυκε Thgn. 467. Adv. ἀκόντως unwillingly, ὁμολογεῖν Pl. Prt. 333b, cf. Hp. Mi. 374d; οὐκ ἀ. ἀλλὰ προθύμως ἐπείσθησαν X. HG 4.8.5. Poet., like ἀκούσιος, of acts or their consequences, involuntary, κακὰ ἑκόντα κοὐκ ἄ. S. OT 1230; ἔργων ἀ. Id. OC 240 (lyr.), cf. 977.

poet. u. ion. für das att. ἄκων, πόλλ' ἀέκων Il. 11.557 ; ἀέκοντος ἐμεῖο, wider meinen Willen, 1.301 ; Pind. ἀέκονθ' ἑκών Ol. 11.30, οὐκ ἀέκων N. 4.21 ; auch Aesch. Suppl. 39 ; Ap.Rh. u. a. D.