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ἀνήκο-ος , ον,
A.without hearing, Arist. Pr.903b38; of the dead, Mosch.3.103; “πέτραι” Lyc.1451.
2. c. gen., not hearing a thing, never having heard or learnt it, Pl.Phdr. 261b, X.Mem.2.1.31: hence, ignorant of it, “παιδείας” Aeschin.1.141; with no ear for, “τῶν Διοννσίου ῥυθμῶν” Philostr.VS1.22.3; not attending the lectures of . ., c. gen., ib.2.2. Adv. “ἀνηκόως, ἔχειν ἀστρολογίας” Plu.2.145c; “ἔς τι” Paus.10.17.13.
b. c. acc. rei, ἀνήκοος εἶναι ἔνια γεγενημένα (where ἀ. εἶναι = ἀγνοεῖν) Pl.Alc.2.141d.
c. abs., “σκαιὸς καὶ ἀ.” ignorant, untaught, D.19.312, cf. Sallust.5.
3. not willing to hear, not listening, Call.Del.116; “τὸ ἀ.” disobedience, D.H. 6.35.
II. unheard, Philostr.Her.12.3; without result, “ἀ. τέθυται” Alciphr.3.35.
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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