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αὐτοπαγής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: αὐτοπαγής αὐτοπαγές

Structure: αὐτοπαγη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ph/gnumi

Sense

  1. self-joined, self-built

Examples

  • φησὶ γὰρ φεύγων τὸν ἔλεγχον ὡσ ἄρα οὐ δυνατὸν τοῦτο συμβαίνειν περὶ τὴν ἄλλην γῆν, διὰ τὸ μήτε κοίλην εἶναι μήτ’ ἐπίκτητον ὥσπερ τὴν Αἴγυπτον, ἀλλ’ ἀρχαίαν τε καὶ ὡσ ἐκεῖνοσ κέκληκεν αὐτοπαγῆ. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 20:9)

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

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