αὐθέκαστος

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.