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αὐτό-χθων , ον, gen. ονος,
A.sprung from the land itself; αὐτόχθονες, οἱ, not settlers, of native stock, Hdt.1.171, Th.6.2, etc.: c. gen., “αὐ. Ἰταλίας” D.H.1.10: esp. of the Athenians, E.Ion29, al., Fr.360.8, Ar.V.1076, Isoc.4.24, 12.124.
II. Adj., indigenous, native, “τὰ μὲν δύο αὐτόχθονα τῶν ἐθνέων” Hdt.4.197; “αὐ. Αἰγύπτιοι” PGiss.99.5 (ii A.D.); “ἀρετή” Lys.2.43; “λάχανα τῶν αὐτοχθόνων” Polioch.2.6; “κόσμος” Philod.Scarph. 127; urbanitas, racy of the soil, Cic.Att.7.2.3.
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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    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 7.2.3
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    • Lysias, Funeral Oration, 43
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