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αὐτόνομ-ος , ον,
A.living under one's own laws, independent, of persons and states, Hdt.1.96, 8.140.ά, Cratin. 15 D., etc.; freq. in Th., “αὐ. ἐπὶ σφῶν αὐτῶν οἰκεῖν” Id.2.63; “ἀφιέναι αὐ. τινα” Id.1.139; “αὐ. ποιεῖν τινα” Id.5.33; “αὐ. ἀπό τινος” X.HG 5.1.36, cf. Lac.3.1; “πόλις . . ἐλευθέρα καὶ αὐ.” IG3.481, al.; “αὐ. πολιτεία” Plu.Rom.27.
2. generally, of one's own free will, “ἀλλ᾽ αὐ. . . Ἀΐδην καταβήσει” S.Ant.821 (lyr.).
3. of animals, feeding and ranging at will, AP7.8 (Antip. Sid.).
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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    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.96
    • Sophocles, Antigone, 821
    • Thucydides, Histories, 1.139
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 5.1.36
    • Xenophon, Constitution of the Lacedaimonians, 3.1
    • Thucydides, Histories, 5.33
    • Thucydides, Histories, 2.63
    • Plutarch, Romulus, 27
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