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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

  • εἰ τῶν μὲν σὺν αὐτῷ στρατευομένων τινὲσ τοιαῦτα δρῶσιν κέρδουσ ἕνεκεν ἀδήλου, μηδὲ τὰ ὅπλα σφῶν αὐτῶν αἰδούμενοι πεποιημένα ἀργύρου τε καὶ χρυσοῦ, τοῖσ δὲ Ἄραψι καὶ [τοῖσ] Σύροισ, εἰ πρῶτον μὲν ἐν ἀλλοτρίῳ πολέμῳ τοῖσ πάθεσιν αὐτεξουσίωσ χρῶνται, ἔπειτα τῇ περὶ φόνουσ ὠμότητι καὶ τῷ πρὸσ Ιοὐδαίουσ μίσει Ῥωμαίουσ ἐπιγράφουσι· (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 631:1)

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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