εἶκον

Validation

Yes

Word-lemma

LSJ

Word-form

ἑκούσιον

Transliteration (Word)

hekousios

Etymon-lemma

LSJ

Transliteration (Etymon)

eikon

Author

Plato

Century

4 BC

Source

Id.

Ref.

Cratylus 420d5-7

Ed.

Burnet, Platonis Opera, Oxford UP, 1903

Quotation

τὸ μὲν οὖν “ἑκούσιον”, τὸ εἶκον καὶ μὴ ἀντιτυποῦν ἀλλ᾽ ὥσπερ λέγω εἶκον τῷ ἰόντι δεδηλωμένον ἂν εἴη τούτῳ τῷ ὀνόματι, τῷ κατὰ τὴν βούλησιν γιγνομένῳ.