The corpus record

μεταγιγνώσκω

metagignosko

find out after

Generated live from the audited corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Archidamus 2 · 3.27/10k
On the Property of Aristophanes 1 · 3.22/10k
Funeral Oration 1 · 2.46/10k
Suppliant Maidens 1 · 2.07/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k
Philoctetes 1 · 1.14/10k
Iphigenia in Aulis 1 · 1.12/10k
Against Midias 1 · 0.67/10k
Panathenaicus 1 · 0.63/10k
Phaedrus 1 · 0.6/10k
On the Crown 1 · 0.51/10k
History 7 · 0.47/10k

Densest 12 of 18 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

μεταγιγνώσκω · metagignōskō — LSJ

find out after, too late

find out after, i.e. too late, ἄταν . . μεταγνούς dub. in A. Supp. 111 (lyr.).

II change oneʼs mind, repent, changed my mind

change oneʼs mind, repent, abs., Hdt. 1.40, 86; μετέγνων, ἔγνων δὲ . . changed my mind and determined . . , Id. 7.15; μεταγνοὺς ἂν ὀρθῶς βουλεύσαιτο Antipho 5.91, cf. Th. 4.92, Pl. Phdr. 231a, Lys. 19.53, D. 18.153, etc.; οὔκουν ἔνεστι καὶ μεταγνῶναι πάλιν; S. Ph. 1270.

2 change oneʼs mind about, repent of, alter, repeal

c. acc. rei, change oneʼs mind about, repent of, μετέγνων καὶ τὰ πρόσθʼ εἰρημένα E. Med. 64; μ. τὰ προδεδογμένα alter or repeal a previous decree, Th. 3.40, cf. Luc. Ner. 4.

c. dat. rei, μ. τῷ φόνῳ Philostr. Ep. 16.

3 change oneʼs mind, change oneʼs mind and think

c. inf., change oneʼs mind so as to do something different, τὸ παντότολμον φρονεῖν μετέγνω A. Ag. 221 (lyr.); ἐν δὲ τῇ ὑστεραίᾳ μετέγνωσαν Κερκυραίοις ξυμμαχίαν μὲν μὴ ποιήσασθαι Th. 1.44; μ. ὡς . . change oneʼs mind and think that . . , X. Cyr. 5.5.40.

In the wild

μετέγνω · metegnō Aeschylus, Agamemnon 218–221
μεταγνούς · metagnous Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 104–111
μεταγιγνώσκειν · metagignōskein Demosthenes, Against Midias 109 (DIORISIS sentence 336)
μετέγνωσαν · metegnōsan Demosthenes, On the Crown 153 (DIORISIS sentence 454)
μετέγνωσαν · metegnōsan Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2.5 (DIORISIS sentence 1371)
μεταγινώσκειν · metaginōskein Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 4.7 (DIORISIS sentence 3533)

6 of 32 attestations shown. Ask for more.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

Downloads

Word record (JSON)·Concordance (CSV)·Frequencies (CSV)·Cite (BibTeX)

CC BY 4.0 with receipt attribution — every file carries its license line. What is exportable

Ask the librarian

Ask about μεταγιγνώσκω →