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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

  • ἀλλ’ Ἀλέξανδροσ εἰδὼσ τίνων δεῖ θεατὴν εἶναι καὶ ἀκροατὴν καὶ τίνων ἀγωνιστὴν καὶ αὐτουργόν, ἤσκει μὲν ἀεὶ διὰ τῶν ὅπλων δεινὸσ εἶναι καὶ κατὰ τὸν Αἰσχύλον βριθὺσ ὁπλιτοπάλασ, δάιοσ ἀντιπάλοισ. (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 2, section 21)
  • ἀλλ’ Ἀλέξανδροσ εἰδὼσ τίνων δεῖ θεατὴν εἶναι καὶ ἀκροατὴν καὶ τίνων ἀγωνιστὴν καὶ αὐτουργόν, ἤσκει μὲν ἀεὶ διὰ τῶν ὅπλων δεινὸσ εἶναι καὶ κατὰ τὸν Αἰσχύλον βριθὺσ ὁπλιτοπάλασ, δάιοσ ἀντιπάλοισ. (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 2, section 21)
  • καὶ γάρ ἦν ἐκεῖ περὶ Μισηνοὺσ τῷ Μαρίῳ πολυτελὴσ οἰκία, τρυφὰσ ἔχουσα καὶ διαίτασ θηλυτέρασ ἢ κατ’ ἄνδρα πολέμων τοσούτων καὶ στρατειῶν αὐτουργόν. (Plutarch, Caius Marius, chapter 34 2:1)
  • ἐν ᾗ καταστήσασ ὑπάτουσ ἀπῄει πάλιν εἰσ τὸ μικρὸν ἐκεῖνο καλύβιον καὶ τὸν αὐτουργὸν ἔζη βίον ὡσ πρότερον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 10, chapter 19 6:2)
  • ἐσθῆτι δέ τινεσ μὲν αὐτῶν ἁπλῶσ οὐ χρῶνται, γυμνῆτα βίον ἔχοντεσ δι’ αἰῶνοσ καὶ πρὸσ μόνα τὰ καύματα ποριζόμενοι βοήθειαν αὐτουργὸν ἐκ τοῦ παραπεσόντοσ· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 8 5:1)

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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