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αὐτεξούσιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: αὐτεξούσιος αὐτεξούσιη αὐτεξούσιον

Structure: αὐτεξουσι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)cousi/a

Sense

  1. in one's own power, free power

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

  • Τί οὖν ἐστι τὸ ποιοῦν ἀκώλυτον τὸν ἄνθρωπον καὶ αὐτεξούσιον; (Epictetus, Works, book 4, 62:1)
  • Πότερον οὖν οὐδὲν ἔχεισ αὐτεξούσιον, ὃ ἐπὶ μόνῳ ἐστὶ σοί, ἢ ἔχεισ τι τοιοῦτον; (Epictetus, Works, book 4, 67:14)
  • τί μοι δέδωκεν ἐμὸν καὶ αὐτεξούσιον, τί αὑτῷ κατέλ[ε]ιπεν; (Epictetus, Works, book 4, 100:3)
  • ὁ δὲ πρὸσ μόνον τὸ λαβεῖν ὑποσχόμενοσ πάντα συμπράξειν, λαβὼν ἔξεισιν τῆσ Καισαρείασ εἰσ Σεβαστὴν καὶ καταλείπει τὴν στάσιν αὐτεξούσιον, ὥσπερ ἄδειαν πεπρακὼσ Ιοὐδαίοισ τοῦ μάχεσθαι. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 379:1)
  • οὐδὲ γὰρ δεῖπνον ἢ ἄριστον ὁπότε θελήσειαν αὐτεξούσιον ἑκάστῳ, πᾶσιν δ’ ὁμοῦ, τούσ τε ὕπνουσ αὐτοῖσ καὶ τὰσ φυλακὰσ καὶ τὰσ ἐξεγέρσεισ σάλπιγγεσ προσημαίνουσιν, οὐδ’ ἔστιν ὅ τι γίνεται δίχα παραγγέλματοσ. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 108:1)
  • ‐ Δοκεῖ δέ σοι ἡ ἐλευθερία αὐτεξούσιόν τι εἶναι καὶ αὐτόνομον; (Epictetus, Works, book 4, 56:2)

Synonyms

  1. in one's own power

Related

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

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