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αὐτάγρετος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: αὐτάγρετος αὐτάγρετη αὐτάγρετον

Structure: αὐταγρετ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)gre/w

Sense

  1. self-chosen, left to one's choice

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • μηδ’ αὔτωσ αὐτάγρετον οἶτον ὄλησθε ἀφραδέωσ, ἢ θύνετ’ ἐπισπόμενοι νεότητι. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 6:5)
  • δεινὰ δὲ παντὶ παρασχεδὸν ἤπυε λαῷ εἰ μή οἱ κούρην αὐτάγρετον, ἢ ἀνὰ γαῖαν, ἢ πλωτῆσ εὑρόντεσ ἔτ’ εἰν ἁλὸσ οἴδματι νῆα, ἄξουσιν, καὶ θυμὸν ἐνιπλήσει μενεαίνων τίσασθαι τάδε πάντα, δαήσονται κεφαλῇσιν πάντα χόλον καὶ πᾶσαν ἑὴν ὑποδέγμενοι ἄτην. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 4:29)
  • εἰ γὰρ πωσ εἰή αὐτάγρετα πάντα βροτοῖσι, πρῶτόν κεν τοῦ πατρὸσ ἑλοίμεθα νόστιμον ἦμαρ. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 16 16:3)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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