The corpus record

ἀκρό-ᾱμα

akroama · τό

anything heard

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Where it lives

Hiero 2 · 3.36/10k
Symposium 1 · 1.05/10k
Siracides 1 · 0.54/10k
Nicomachean Ethics 1 · 0.18/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

ἀκρό-ᾱμα · akro-ama — LSJ

anything heard, with pleasure, piece read, recited, played, sung

anything heard, esp. with pleasure, piece read, recited, played or sung, X. Smp. 2.2, Hier. 1.14; ἀ. καὶ ὁράματα Arist. EN 1173b18; ἀ. καὶ πότοι Plb. 31.25.4.

II lecturers, singers, players

pl. for concrete, lecturers, singers, or players, esp. during meals, Phylarch. 62, BCH 30.272 (Delph.), Plb. 4.20.10, 16.21.12; so in Lat., acroama Cic. Sest. 54.116, etc.

In the wild

ἀκροάματα · akroamata Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1173b (DIORISIS sentence 3524)
ἀκροαμάτων · akroamatōn Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 8601)
ἀκρόαμα · akroama Septuaginta, Siracides 32
ἀκροάματος · akroamatos Xenophon, Hiero 1.14 (DIORISIS sentence 38)
ἀκροάματος · akroamatos Xenophon, Hiero 1.14 (DIORISIS sentence 40)
ἀκροάματα · akroamata Xenophon, Symposium 2.2 (DIORISIS sentence 54)

Where it came from

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