αὐτόματος
automatos
acting of oneʼs own will, of oneself
Appears 24 times across Plato's dialogues.
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αὐτόματος, η, ον, and Att.; ος, ον Op. 103, GA 762a9, 1 , EP 19 in Hermes 53.65. 1. of persons, acting of oneʼs own will, of oneself, αὐ. δέ οἱ ἦλθε Il. 2.408; αὐ. φοιτῶσι Νοῦσοι Op. 103; αὐ. ἥκω Pl. 1190, cf. 6.91, 2.25, etc. 2. of inanimate things, self-acting, spontaneous, of the gates of Olympus, αὐτόμαται δὲ πύλαι μύκον οὐρανοῦ Il. 5.749; of the tripods of Hephaistos, which ran of themselves, ὄφρα οἱ αὐτόματοι . . δυσαίατʼ ἀγῶνα 18.376, cf. 188; ὅπλα . . αὐ. φανῆναι ἔξω προκείμενα τοῦ νηοῦ 8.37; τὰ αὐ. marionettes, GA 734b10, Aut. passim: generally, spontaneous, βίος Plt. 271e; ἔπαινος Sent.Vat. 64. 3. of natural agencies, ὁ ποταμὸς αὐ. ἐπελθών of itself, 2.14; of plants, growing of themselves, αὐ. ἐκ τῆς γῆς γίνεται 3.100; αὐ. φύεσθαι 2.94, Fr. 171.11; κύτισος αὐ. ἔρχεται 98.8: metaph., αὐτόματα πάντʼ ἀγαθὰ . . ποριζεται Ach. 976, cf. 160; of philosophers, αὐ. ἀναφύονται Tht. 180c. 4. of events, happening of themselves, without external agency, αὐ. δεσμὰ διελύθη Ba. 447; αὐ. θάνατος natural death, 18.205; κόποι αὐ. not to be accounted for externally, Aph. 2.5; ἀπό τινος αἰτίας αὐτομάτης Sph. 265c; without visible cause, accidental, opp. ἀπὸ πείρης, 7.9.γʹ. II. αὐτόματον, τό, accident, τὸ αὐ. αἰτιᾶσθαι 6.25; σε ταὐ. ἀποσέσωκε Epit. 568; διὰ τὸ αὐ. Ph. 195b33; τὸ αὐ. ἀγαπῶντες Ath. 8.5; τῷ αὐ., opp. τέχνῃ, Metaph. 1070a7: most freq. in the form ἀπὸ τοῦ αὐτομάτου or ἀπὸ ταὐτομάτου, ἀποθανέειν ἀπὸ τοῦ αὐ. 2.66, cf. 2.77, Ap. 38c, al., Po. 1452a5, al., Pk. 31; ἐκ τοῦ αὐ. An. 1.3.13; τὸ Αὐ. personified, Ath.Mitt. 35.458 (Pergam.); ταὐτόματόν ἐστιν ὡς ἔοικέ που θεός 291. III. Adv. -τως, = ἀπὸ ταὐτομάτου, v.l. in 2.180, Fract. 43, PA 640a27, al., 21.27; of itself, κοχλίας αὐ. βαδίζων 12.13.11:—also αὐτοματεί or -τί (q.v.).
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