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αὐτοκέλευστος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: αὐτοκέλευστος αὐτοκέλευστη αὐτοκέλευστον

Structure: αὐτοκελευστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. self-bidden, unbidden, of one's own accord

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

  • " καὶ ὁ Καῖσαρ οὐδὲν μὲν αὐτὸσ ἔφη περὶ τοῦδε προστάξαι οὑ̓δὲ γὰρ προμαθεῖν προσπλέοντα οὐδ’ ἀφικέσθαι μετὰ πολεμίων προσδοκῆσαἰ, Βρεντεσίουσ δὲ αὐτοὺσ καὶ τὸν ὑπολελειμμένον αὐτοῖσ διὰ τὰσ Αἠνοβάρβου καταδρομὰσ ταξίαρχον αὐτοκελεύστουσ ἀποκλεῖσαι τὸν Ἀντώνιον, συνθέμενον μὲν ἐχθρῷ κοινῷ Πομπηίῳ, ἐπαγαγόντα δὲ Αἠνόβαρβον φονέα τοῦ ἐμοῦ πατρόσ, ψήφῳ καὶ κρίσει καὶ προγραφῇ κατεγνωσμένον καὶ πολιορκήσαντα μὲν τὸ Βρεντέσιον μετὰ Φιλίππουσ, πολιορκοῦντα δὲ ἔτι τὸν Ιὄνιον ἐν κύκλῳ, ἐμπρήσαντα δὲ τὰσ ἐμὰσ ναῦσ καὶ τὴν Ἰταλίαν λεηλατήσαντα. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 5, chapter 7 2:9)

Synonyms

  1. self-bidden

Related

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

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