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αὐτοσχέδιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: αὐτοσχέδιος αὐτοσχέδιη αὐτοσχέδιον

Structure: αὐτοσχεδι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. hand to hand, in close fight, in the fray
  2. off-hand

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

  • ἀλλ̓ οὔτε τὸ Σύλλιον ἐξ ἐφόδου αὐτοσχεδίου ἠδυνήθη λαβεῖν, ἐπεί τ̓ ἠγγέλθη αὐτῷ κατὰ τὴν ὁδὸν τοὺσ Ἀσπενδίουσ ὅτι οὐδὲν τῶν ξυγκειμένων πρᾶξαι ἐθέλοιεν, οὔτε τοὺσ ἵππουσ παραδοῦναι τοῖσ πεμφθεῖσιν οὔτε ἀπαριθμῆσαι τὰ χρήματα, καὶ τὰ ἐκ τῆσ χώρασ ὅτι ἀνασκευασάμενοι ἐσ τὴν πόλιν τάσ τε πύλασ ἀποκεκλείκασι τοῖσ παρὰ Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ τὰ τείχη, ὅπῃ πεπονηκότα ἦν, ἐπισκευάζουσι, ταῦτα πυθόμενοσ ἐπὶ Ἀσπένδου ἀνεζεύγνυεν. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 1, chapter 26 5:2)
  • ταύτῃ μὲν δὴ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τοσαῦτα περὶ τὸ ἱερὸν δρῶσι, τῇ δὲ ἐπιούσῃ σκηνὰσ οἱ καπηλεύοντεσ ποιοῦνται καλάμου τε καὶ ἄλλησ ὕλησ αὐτοσχεδίου· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 32 24:1)

Synonyms

  1. hand to hand

  2. off-hand

Related

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

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