The corpus record

ἀκου-στέον

akousteon

one must hear

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Where it lives

Electra 1 · 1.15/10k
Iphigenia in Aulis 1 · 1.12/10k
Frogs 1 · 1.1/10k
Oedipus Tyrannus 1 · 1.08/10k
Symposium 1 · 1.05/10k
Against Leptines 1 · 0.89/10k
Republic 5 · 0.56/10k
Laws 2 · 0.19/10k
Enneads 2 · 0.09/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

ἀκου-στέον · akou-steon — LSJ

one must hear, hearken to

one must hear or hearken to, c. gen. pers., E. IA 1010, X. Smp. 3.9, etc. (also in pl. ἀκουστέα, Hdt. 3.61; τῶν κρατούντων ἐστὶ πάντʼ ἀκουστέα S. El. 340): c. acc. rei, Pl. R. 386a: abs., S. OT 1170.

b one must understand, one must interpret

one must understand, τι διττῶς Str. 9.5.12, cf. Gal. 15.484, Olymp. in Mete. 337.14; one must interpret, ὀνείρους Artem. 1.3.

In the wild

ἀκουστέα · akoustea Aristophanes, Frogs 1180–1181
ἀκουστέον · akousteon Demosthenes, Against Leptines 130 (DIORISIS sentence 426)
ἀκουστέον · akousteon Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 1010 (DIORISIS sentence 630)
ἀκουστέα · akoustea Herodotus, Histories 3.61.3 (DIORISIS sentence 3318)
ἀκουστέα · akoustea Plato, Laws 724
ἀκουστέον · akousteon Plato, Laws 820

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Where it came from

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