αὐθέκαστος
ἀλεξίκακε τρισέληνε, μηδέποθ' ἡττηθείς, σήμερον ἐξετάθης → averter of woes, offspring of three nights, thou, who never didst suffer defeat, art to-day laid low
English (LSJ)
ον,
A one who calls things by their right names, down-right, blunt, Arist.EN1127a23, cf. Cleanth.Stoic.1.127; οὔκ ἐστ' ἀλώπηξ ἡ μὲν εἴρων . . ἡ δ' αὐ. Philem.89.7, cf. Posidipp.40; in later Prose, λόγος Phld.Piet.102 (Comp.), cf. Ph.2.51, Plu.Cat.Ma.6. Adv. -τως bluntly, Phld.Sign.32. 2 of style, inartificial, plain, D.H.Comp.22. 3 in bad sense, self-willed (αὐτάρεσκος, Hsch.; = ἀπαρέγκλητος, Suid.), αὐ. τὸν τρόπον, τῷ τρόπῳ, Men.843, Sam.205, cf. Luc.Phal.1.2, Plu.2.11e; οὐ γὰρ αὐθάδης οὐδὲ αὐ. ὁ σώφρων ἀνήρ ib. 823a, cf. Phld.Vit.p.30J. 4 self-controlled, ζῷον οὐ μονῆρες καὶ αὐ. ἀλλὰ κοινωνικὸν καὶ πολιτικόν Them.Or.34p.446D. Adv. -τως Plu.Lys.21.
