αὐθέντης: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ου, ὁ, (cf. [[αὐτοέντης]]) <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[murderer]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.117</span>, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Rh.</span>873</span>, <span class="bibl">Th.3.58</span>; τινός <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">HF</span>1359</span>, <span class="bibl">A.R.2.754</span>; [[suicide]], <span class="bibl">Antipho 3.3.4</span>, <span class="bibl">D.C.37.13</span>: more loosely, <b class="b2">one of a murderer's family</b>, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Andr.</span>172</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[perpetrator]], [[author]], πράξεως <span class="bibl">Plb.22.14.2</span>; ἱεροσυλίας <span class="bibl">D.S.16.61</span>: generally, [[doer]], <span class="bibl">Alex.<span class="title">Rh.</span>p.2S.</span>; [[master]], δῆμος αὐθέντης χθονός <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Supp.</span>442</span>; voc. αὐθέντα ἥλιε <span class="title">PMag.Leid.W.</span>6.46; condemned by Phryn.96. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> as Adj., <b class="b3">ὅμαιμος αὐ. φόνος, αὐ. φάνατοι</b>, murder [[by one of the same family]], <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Eu.</span>212</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ag.</span>1572</span> (lyr.). (For <b class="b3">αὐτο-ἕντης</b>, cf. <b class="b3">συν-έντης, ἁνύω</b>; root <b class="b2">sen-, sṇ-</b>.) </span>