αὑτοῦ
ἐξ ὀνύχων λέοντα τεκμαίρεσθαι → judge by the claws, judge by a slight but characteristic mark, small traits give the clue to the character of a person, deduce something from a small indication, identify a lion from its claws
English (LSJ)
Att. contr. for ἑαυτοῦ.
Spanish (DGE)
v. ἑαυτοῦ.
French (Bailly abrégé)
v. ἑαυτοῦ.
English (Strong)
contracted for ἑαυτοῦ; self (in some oblique case or reflexively, relation): her (own), (of) him(-self), his (own), of it, thee, their (own), them(-selves), they.
English (Thayer)
(αὐτόφωρος) ἀυτοφωρον (αὐτός and φώρ a thief, φωρά a theft) (from Sophocles down); properly, caught in the act of theft; then universally, caught in the act of perpetrating any other crime; very often in the phrases ἐπ' αὐτοφώρῳ (as one word ἐπαυτοφώρῳ) τινα λαμβάνειν, passive λαμβάνεσθαι, καταλαμβάνεσθαι, ἁλίσκεσθαι, (from Herodotus 6,72on), the crime being specified by a participle: μοιχευομένη, R G), as in Aelian nat. an. 11,15; Plutarch, mor. vi., p. 446, Tauchn. edition (x., p. 723, Reiske edition, cf. Nicias 4,5; Eumen. 2,2); Sextus Empiricus, adverb Rhet. 65 (p. 151, Fabric. edition).
Greek Monotonic
αὑτοῦ: Αττ. συνηρ. αντί ἑαυτοῦ.
Russian (Dvoretsky)
αὑτοῦ: стяж. к ἑαυτοῦ.
German (Pape)
att. zusammengezogen aus ἑαυτοῦ.
