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παρα^κούω ,
A.hear beside, esp. hear accidentally, hear talk of, “Δημοκήδεος τὴν τέχνην” Hdt.3.129 ; “ἀξίων λόγου πραγμάτων” Pl.Ep.339e ; “παρακήκοα νῦν ὅτι τίκτει” AP 5.74 (Rufin.).
II. eavesdrop, overhear from, “δεσποτῶν ἅττ᾽ ἂν λαλῶσι” Ar.Ra.750 ; “τι παρά τινος” Pl. Euthd.300d ; π. τινός overhear him, Luc.Merc.Cond.37 ; “π. τὸν λόγον” Ev.Marc.5.36.
III. hear imperfectly or wrongly, misunderstand, “ἀκούειν τι τοῦ λόγου, παρακούειν δέ” Arist.EN1149a26, cf. Pl.Prt.330e, Tht.195a, Phld.Mus.p.102 K., Ceb.3, Luc.Anach.31; ἑκουσίως π. D.S.30.8.
IV. hear carelessly, take no heed of, “τῆς παραγγειλάσης φύσεως” Epicur.Fr.200; “τῶν γραφομένων” Plb.24.9.1, cf. Luc.Salt.6, etc.; “τῶν ἐντολῶν” LXX To.3.4 ; “τῶν λεγομένων” Plb.7.12.9 (but “τὰ λεγόμενα” LXX Es.3.3).
2. c. gen. pers., PHib.1.170 (iii B.C.), Plb.2.8.3,3.15.2, Ev.Matt.18.17:—Pass., to be disregarded, Plb.5.35.5; “περί τινος” Id.30.20.2, prob. cj. in 23.3.3.
3. disobey, “τοῦ θεοῦ” J.AJ1.10.4 : abs., LXX Is.65.12, J.AJ1.1.4, Luc.Sat.10:—Pass., J.AJ6.7.4.
4. pretend not to hear, Plu.Phil.16, Luc Jud.Voc.2.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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