Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

αὐτουργός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: αὐτουργός αὐτουργόν

Structure: αὐτουργ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: E)/rgw

Sense

  1. self-working
  2. one who works his land himself, a husbandman, poor farmer, one that has worked, by himself
  3. self-wrought, simple, native

Examples

  • οὐ μέντοι θανάτου γ’ αὐτὸν οἱ καταδικασάμενοι ἐτίμησαν, ἀλλ’ ἐκτίσματοσ, ὃ πρὸσ μὲν τοὺσ νῦν ἐξεταζόμενον βίουσ γέλωτοσ ἂν ἄξιον φανείη, τοῖσ δὲ τότ’ ἀνθρώποισ αὐτουργοῖσ οὖσι καὶ πρὸσ αὐτὰ τὰ ἀναγκαῖα ζῶσι, μάλιστα δ’ ἐκείνῳ τῷ ἀνδρὶ πενίαν κληρονομήσαντι παρὰ τοῦ πατρὸσ ἀφειδὲσ ἦν καὶ βαρύ, δισχιλίων ἀριθμὸσ ἀσσαρίων. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 9, chapter 27 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. self-working

  2. self-wrought

Related

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

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