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

  • ὄπουσ γὰρ ὀνομάζεται τὸ ἔργον, αὐτουργῷ δ’ ἀριστείασ στρατηγῷ, στρατηγὸν ἀνελόντι, δέδοται καθιέρωσισ ὀπιμίων. (Plutarch, chapter 16 7:2)
  • φρόνησον, ὦ κασιγνήτη, πατὴρ ὡσ νῷν ἀπεχθὴσ δυσκλεήσ τ’ ἀπώλετο, πρὸσ αὐτοφώρων ἀμπλακημάτων διπλᾶσ ὄψεισ ἀράξασ αὐτὸσ αὐτουργῷ χερί. (Sophocles, Antigone, episode 2:12)
  • θάμνου ποτ’ ἄκρουσ ἀμφὶ κλῶνασ ἥμενοσ τέττιξ πτερῷ, φλέγοντοσ ἡλίου μέσου, νηδὺν ῥαπίζων, δαίδαλ’ αὐτουργῷ μέλει ἡδὺσ κατωργάνιζε τῆσ ἐρημίασ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 2641)
  • ἡκούσῃ δὲ προσέταξεν ἄρτουσ αὐτῷ ποιῆσαι τηγανιστοὺσ αὐτουργῷ γενομένῃ· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 7 203:4)

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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