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αὐτόμολος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: αὐτόμολος

Structure: αὐτομολ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: molei=n

Sense

  1. going of oneself, without bidding, a deserter

Examples

  • Ἐπίχαρμοσ τὸν ἄρρενα χοῖρον οὕτωσ καλεῖ ἐν Ὀδυσσεῖ αὐτομόλῳ · (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 171)
  • οἱ δὲ λεγόμενοι μελανδρύαι, ὧν καὶ Ἐπίχαρμοσ μνημονεύει ἐν Αὐτομόλῳ Ὀδυσσεῖ οὕτωσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 92 3:1)

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

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