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[634] ἀκούη is a word which recurs only in the Od. in the phrase (“ἔβη”） “μετὰ πατρὸς ἀκουήν” Od. 2.308, etc. It means hearing; the phrase “ἔκαθεν γίνετ᾽ ἀκουή” is thus the counterpart of “τηλόσε δοῦπον ἐν οὔρεσιν ἔκλυε ποιμήν” 4.455 (q.v.). The ‘hearing’ being regarded as a power going out from the ear, the hearer hears to a distance, his hearing comes to the source of sound from a distance. See also on 515 above.
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