Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

αὐτόστολος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: αὐτόστολος αὐτόστολη αὐτόστολον

Structure: αὐτοστολ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ste/llw

Sense

  1. self-sent, going or acting of oneself

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

  • πολλὰ γὰρ τοῖσ ἱγμένοισ ἔστελλον αὐτὸν ἱκεσίουσ πέμπων λιτάσ, αὐτόστολον πέμψαντά μ’ ἐκσῶσαι δόμουσ. (Sophocles, Philoctetes, episode 2:16)
  • Μύγδων τέρμα βίοιο λαχὼν, αὐτόστολοσ ἦλθεν εἰσ ἀίδην, νεκύων πορθμίδοσ οὐ χατέων. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 5851)

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

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