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αὐτο-κράτωρ [α^], ορος, ὁ, ἡ, （κρα^τέω)
A.one's own master: hence,
1. of persons or states, free, independent, Th.4.63, IG12 (9).189.44, etc.: of a youth that has come of age, X.Mem.2.1.21.
2. of ambassadors and commissioners, possessing full powers, plenipotentiary, “αὐτοκράτορά τινα ἑλέσθαι” Ar.Pax 359; “αὐ. ἥκομεν” Id.Av.1595; “πρεσβευτής” Lys.13.9; “ξυγγραφεῖς” Th.8.67; “αὐ. βουλή” And.1.15; ἀποδεῖξαι ἄνδρας ἀρχὴν αὐτοκράτορας, opp. a reference to the assembly, Th.5.27.
3. of rulers, absolute, “στρατηγοί” Id.6.72; “ἄρχων” X. An.6.1.21; “ἀνυπεύθυνος καὶ αὐ. ἄρχειν” Pl.Lg.875b, cf. Plt.299c; τὸ πᾶν αὐ. διαθεῖναι manage all at their pleasure, Th.1.126; ἦρχε τῶν ἀκολουθούντων αὐτὸς αὐτοκράτωρ, of Philip, D.18.235; “μόναρχοι” Arist.Pol. 1295a12; στρατηγία ib.1285a8 (dub.); νοῦς αὐ. (cf. αὐτοκρατής) Anaxag. ap.Pl.Cra.413c: hence, = Lat.Dictator, Plb.3.86.7, etc.; = Imperator, Plu.Pomp.8; of the Emperor, Id.Galb.1, etc.
4. αὐ. λογισμός peremptory reasoning, Th.4.108.
II. c. gen., complete master of . . , “πόλις οὐκ αὐ. οὖσα ἑαυτῆς” Id.3.62; “τῆς τύχης” Id.4.64; “τῆς αὑτοῦ πορείας” Pl.Plt.274a; τῆς ἐπιορκίας αὐ. having full liberty to swear falsely, D.17.12: c. inf., αὐ. κολάσαι having full power to punish, Id.59.80.
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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