listener, eavesdropper, a spy
listener, eavesdropper, of a person employed as a spy by tyrants, Arist. Pol. 1313b14, Mu. 398a21, Plb. 16.37.1, Plu. Curios. 2.522f.
The corpus record
ὠτᾰκουστ-ής
otakoustes · ὁ
listener, eavesdropper
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Where it lives
- De Mundo 1 · 1.58/10k
- Politics 1 · 0.15/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- ὠτακουσταὶ · ōtakoustai Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 137)
- ὠτακουστὰς · ōtakoustas Aristotle, Politics 1313b (DIORISIS sentence 2173)
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.