The corpus record

ἄκου-σμα

akousma · τό

thing heard

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Where it lives

To Demonicus 2 · 6.92/10k
Hiero 1 · 1.68/10k
On the Art of Horsemanship 1 · 1.44/10k
Oedipus at Colonus 1 · 0.97/10k
Epistles 1 · 0.59/10k
Memorabilia 1 · 0.28/10k
Nicomachean Ethics 1 · 0.18/10k
Politics 1 · 0.15/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

ἄκου-σμα · akou-sma — LSJ

thing heard

thing heard, such as music, ἥδιστον ἄ. X. Mem. 2.1.31, Men. 660; ἀ. καὶ ὁράματα Arist. Pol. 1336b2, cf. EN 1174b28, Posidon. 23, Plu. Crass. 33.

2 rumour, report

rumour, report, S. OC 518 (lyr.), Jul. Or. 3.110d.

3 oral instruction

oral instruction, in the Pythag. school, Iamb. VP 18.82.

In the wild

ἀκούσματα · akousmata Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1174b (DIORISIS sentence 3573)
ἀκουσμάτων · akousmatōn Aristotle, Politics 1336b (DIORISIS sentence 2953)
ἀκουσμάτων · akousmatōn Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2515)
ἀκουσμάτων · akousmatōn Isocrates, To Demonicus 12 (DIORISIS sentence 27)
ἀκουσμάτων · akousmatōn Isocrates, To Demonicus 19 (DIORISIS sentence 59)
ἀκούσματα · akousmata Plato, Epistles 314

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Where it came from

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