listen, eavesdrop
listen, eavesdrop, Hdt. 8.130, X. Cyr. 5.3.56, 8.2.10, D. 19.288; ὠ. καὶ κατοπτεύειν τὰ συμβαίνοντα Plb. 31.13.1: c. gen., Suid.
The corpus record
ὠτᾰκουστ-έω
otakousteo
listen, eavesdrop
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Where it lives
- Cyropaedia 2 · 0.25/10k
- Histories 1 · 0.05/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- ὠτακούστεον · ōtakousteon Herodotus, Histories 8.130.4 (DIORISIS sentence 9194)
- ὠτακουστοῦντες · ōtakoustountes Xenophon, Cyropaedia 5.3.56 (DIORISIS sentence 2680)
- ὠτακουστεῖν · ōtakoustein Xenophon, Cyropaedia 8.2.10 (DIORISIS sentence 4239)
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.