The corpus record

ἀέκων

aekon

involuntary, constrained

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Where it lives

Hippias Minor 14 · 32.14/10k
Prometheus Bound 4 · 6.8/10k
Suppliant Maidens 3 · 6.22/10k
Oedipus at Colonus 6 · 5.79/10k
Apology 3 · 3.43/10k
Alcibiades 1 3 · 2.93/10k
Iliad 28 · 2.51/10k
Ion 1 · 2.49/10k
Odyssey 21 · 2.42/10k
Crito 1 · 2.4/10k
Deuteronomium 5 · 2.24/10k
Ecclesiastes 1 · 2.21/10k

Densest 12 of 59 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ἀέκων · aekōn — LSJ

involuntary, constrained, unwillingly

involuntary, constrained, of persons, ἀέκοντος ἐμεῖο Il. 1.310; ἑκὼν ἀέκοντί γε θυμῷ 4.43; πόλλʼ ἀέκων 11.557; opp. βουλόμενος, Hp. VC 11; τὼ δʼ 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.[3.]19: contr. first in h.Cer. 413; ἄκοντος Διός invito Jove, A. Pr. 771; repeated, ἄκοντά σʼ ἄκων προσπασσαλεύσω ib. 19, cf. 671; ἄ. ἀκούειν οὓς ἑκὼν εἶπεν λόγους S. Fr. 929, cf. Ant. 276; μηδένα τῶνδʼ ἀέκοντα μένειν κατέρυκ

II involuntary

Poet., like ἀκούσιος, of acts or their consequences, involuntary, κακὰ ἑκόντα κοὐκ ἄ. S. OT 1230; ἔργων ἀ. Id. OC 240 (lyr.), cf. 977.

In the wild

ἄκων · akōn Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 18–22
ἀκούσαις · akousais Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 279–280
ἄκουσαν · akousan Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 669–670
ἄκοντος · akontos Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 771
ἄκουσαν · akousan Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 227
ἄκοντος · akontos Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 227

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Where it came from

Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. ἑκών (scan p. 447; entry #1977).
Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. ἑκών (scan p. 345; entry #2377).

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