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αὐτολήκυθος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: αὐτολήκυθος αὐτολήκυθη αὐτολήκυθον

Structure: αὐτοληκυθ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. one who carries his own oil-flask, a shabby fellow

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

  • "ἐν τοῖσ σκιραφείοισ ἐγκαψικήδαλοσ ^ ἄνθρωποσ τῶν αὐτοληκύθων καὶ τῶν αὐτοκαβδάλων, ἀεὶ κουριῶν, ἐνδρομίδασ ὑποδούμενοσ ἢ βαυκίδασ, ἀμφιμάσχαλον ἔχων. (Lucian, Lexiphanes, (no name) 10:2)
  • τί δ’ οὐ μέλλει, φήσομεν, ἂν τὸν ἀληθινὸν κόλακα καὶ μετὰ δεινότητοσ καὶ τέχνησ ἁπτόμενον τοῦ πράγματοσ διώκωμεν, ἀλλὰ μή, καθάπερ οἱ πολλοί, τοὺσ αὐτοληκύθουσ τούτουσ λεγομένουσ καὶ τραπεζέασ καὶ μετὰ τὸ κατὰ χειρὸσ ὕδωρ ἀκουομένουσ ὥσ τισ εἶπε κόλακασ νομίζωμεν, ὧν ἐν μιᾷ λοπάδι καὶ κύλικι μετὰ βωμολοχίασ καὶ βδελυρίασ ἡ ἀνελευθερία γίγνεται κατάδηλοσ; (Plutarch, Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur, chapter, section 3 1:1)
  • βούλομαι δὴ προειπεῖν ὑμῖν ἁγὼ πέπυσμαι λέγειν αὐτὸν παρεσκευάσθαι, ἀπὸ τῆσ ὕβρεωσ καὶ τῶν πεπραγμένων τὸ πρᾶγμ’ ἄγοντ’ εἰσ γέλωτα καὶ σκώμματ’ ἐμβαλεῖν πειράσεσθαι, καὶ ἐρεῖν ὡσ εἰσὶν ἐν τῇ πόλει πολλοί, καλῶν κἀγαθῶν ἀνδρῶν υἱεῖσ, οἳ παίζοντεσ οἷ’ ἄνθρωποι νέοι σφίσιν αὐτοῖσ ἐπωνυμίασ πεποίηνται, καὶ καλοῦσι τοὺσ μὲν ἰθυφάλλουσ, τοὺσ δ’ αὐτοληκύθουσ, ἐρῶσι δ’ ἐκ τούτων ἑταιρῶν τινέσ, καὶ δὴ καὶ τὸν υἱὸν τὸν ἑαυτοῦ εἶναι τούτων ἕνα, καὶ πολλάκισ περὶ ἑταίρασ καὶ εἰληφέναι καὶ δεδωκέναι πληγάσ, καὶ ταῦτ’ εἶναι νέων ἀνθρώπων. (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 23:2)
  • ἰθυφάλλοισ δὲ καὶ αὐτοληκύθοισ συγχωροῦμεν εἶναι τοῖσ υἱέσι τοῖσ τούτου, καὶ ἔγωγ’ εὔχομαι τοῖσ θεοῖσ εἰσ Κόνωνα καὶ τοὺσ υἱεῖσ τοὺσ τούτου καὶ ταῦτα καὶ τὰ τοιαῦθ’ ἅπαντα τρέπεσθαι. (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 26:2)

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

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