αὐθέκαστος
ον, Adv.
A.
one who calls things by their right names, down-right, blunt, Arist. EN 1127a23, cf. Cleanth.Stoic. 1.127; οὔκ ἐστ’ ἀλώπηξ ἡ μὲν εἴρων . . ἡ δ’ αὐ. Philem. 89.7, cf. Posidipp. 40; in later Prose, λόγος Phld. Piet. 102 (Comp.), cf. Ph. 2.51, Plu. Cat.Ma. 6. Adv. ‐τως bluntly, Phld. Sign. 32.
2.
of style, inartificial, plain, D.H. Comp. 22.
3.
in bad sense, self-willed (αὐτάρεσκος, Hsch.; = ἀπαρέγκλητος, Suid.), αὐ. τὸν τρόπον, τῷ τρόπῳ, Men. 843, Sam. 205, cf. Luc. Phal. 1.2, Plu. 2.11e; οὐ γὰρ αὐθάδης οὐδὲ αὐ. ὁ σώφρων ἀνήρ ib. 823a, cf. Phld. Vit. p.30J.
4.
self-controlled, ζῷον οὐ μονῆρες καὶ αὐ. ἀλλὰ κοινωνικὸν καὶ πολιτικόν Them. Or. 34p.446D. Adv. ‐τως Plu. Lys. 21.