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|Definition=ον, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">one who calls things by their right names, down-right, blunt</b>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">EN</span>1127a23</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Cleanth.Stoic.1.127</span>; οὔκ ἐστ' ἀλώπηξ ἡ μὲν εἴρων… ἡ δ' αὐ. <span class="bibl">Philem.89.7</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Posidipp.40</span>; in later Prose, λόγος <span class="bibl">Phld.<span class="title">Piet.</span>102</span> (Comp.), cf. <span class="bibl">Ph.2.51</span>, <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Cat.Ma.</span>6</span>. Adv. -τως [[bluntly]], <span class="bibl">Phld.<span class="title">Sign.</span>32</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> of style, [[inartificial]], [[plain]], <span class="bibl">D.H.<span class="title">Comp.</span>22</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> in bad sense, [[self-willed]] ([[αὐτάρεσκος]], Hsch.; = [[ἀπαρέγκλητος]], Suid.), <b class="b3">αὐ. τὸν τρόπον, τῷ τρόπῳ</b>, <span class="bibl">Men.843</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Sam.</span>205</span>, cf. Luc.<span class="title">Phal.</span>1.2, Plu.2.11e; <b class="b3">οὐ γὰρ αὐθάδης οὐδὲ αὐ. ὁ σώφρων ἀνήρ</b> ib. 823a, cf. <span class="bibl">Phld.<span class="title">Vit.</span>p.30J.</span> </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">4</span> [[self-controlled]], ζῷον οὐ μονῆρες καὶ αὐ. ἀλλὰ κοινωνικὸν καὶ πολιτικόν Them.<span class="title">Or.</span>34p.446D. Adv. -τως <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Lys.</span>21</span>.</span>