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αὐτόφορτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: αὐτόφορτος

Structure: αὐτοφορτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. bearing one's own baggage
  2. cargo and all

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

  • Πόπλιόν τε γὰρ Λικίννιον ἐμβαλόντα πρῶτον εἰσ Μακεδονίαν τρεψάμενοσ ἱππομαχίᾳ δισχιλίουσ πεντακοσίουσ ἄνδρασ ἀγαθοὺσ ἀπέκτεινε καὶ ζῶντασ ἄλλουσ ἑξακοσίουσ ἔλαβε, τοῦ τε ναυστάθμου περὶ Ὠρεὸν ὁρμοῦντοσ ἀπροσδόκητον ἐπίπλουν θέμενοσ εἴκοσι μὲν αὐτοφόρτουσ ὁλκάδασ ἐχειρώσατο, τὰσ δ’ ἄλλασ σίτου γεμούσασ κατέδυσεν· (Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus, chapter 9 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. bearing one's own baggage

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

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