αὐτόματος: Difference between revisions

|txtha=ἀυτοματον, and αὐτομάτη, ἀυτοματον (from [[αὐτός]] and [[μέμαα]] to [[desire]] [[eagerly]], from the [[obsolete]] [[theme]] μάω), moved by [[one]]'s [[own]] [[impulse]], or acting [[without]] the [[instigation]] or [[intervention]] of [[another]] (from Homer down); [[often]] of the [[earth]] producing plants of itself, and of the plants [[themselves]] and fruits growing [[without]] [[culture]]; (on its adverbial [[use]] cf. Winer's Grammar, § 54,2): [[Herodotus]] 2,94; 8,138; [[Plato]], polit., p. 272a.; (Theophrastus, h., p. 2,1); Diodorus 1,8, etc. [[Homer]], Iliad 5,749; [[Xenophon]], [[Hell]]. 6,4, 7; Apoll. Rh. 4,41; [[Plutarch]], Timol. 12; Nonnus, [[Dionysius]] 44,21; ([[Dio]] Cassio, 44,17)).