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αὐτό-φωρος , ον, (φώρ)
A.self-detected, “ἀμπλακήματα” S.Ant.51.
II. mostly in the phrase ἐπ᾽ αὐτοφώρῳ λαμβάνειν to catch in the act, Lys.13.85, D.19.132; “ἑλεῖν” E.Ion1214; “ἐλέγχειν” Lys.7.42: with pass. Verbs, “ἐπ᾽ αὐτοφώρῳ ἁλῶναι” Hdt.6.72; “εἰλῆφθαι” Ar.Pl.455, Eup.181: hence,
2. in a more general sense, notoriously, manifestly, “ἐπιβουλεύοντας φανῆναι ἐπ᾽ αὐ.” Hdt. 6.137; “ἐπ᾽ αὐ. αὐτὸν ἐλέγξω” Lys.13.30; “τὸν θάνατόν τινος ἐπ. αὐ. μηχανωμένη” Antipho 1.3; “ἐπ᾽ αὐ. καταλαμβάνειν τινὰ ἀμαθέστερον ὄντα” Pl.Ap.22b, cf. R.359c; “ἐπ᾽ αὐ. εἴλημμαι πλουσιώτατος ὤν” X. Smp.3.13; “ἀξιῶ σε . . ἐπ᾽. αὐ. ταῦτά μοι ἐπιδεῖξαι” Lys.1.21; “ἐπ᾽ αὐ. κλέπται ὄντες ἐξελεγχόμενοι” Aeschin.3.10.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (15):
    • Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon, 10
    • Antiphon, Against the Stepmother for Poisoning, 3
    • Aristophanes, Plutus, 455
    • Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, 132
    • Euripides, Ion, 1214
    • Herodotus, Histories, 6.137
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    • Lysias, On the Murder of Eratosthenes, 21
    • Lysias, On the Olive Stump, 42
    • Lysias, Against Agoratus, 30
    • Lysias, Against Agoratus, 85
    • Plato, Republic, 359c
    • Plato, Apology, 22b
    • Sophocles, Antigone, 51
    • Xenophon, Symposium, 3.13
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