ἀσύμφωνος. [122] 23. Out of tune. Lat. dissonus.
ἄτακτος. [156] 20, [254] 16. Disordered, irregular. Lat. perturbatus, nullo ordine compositus, incompositus.
ἀτοπία. [130] 26. Awkwardness, clumsiness. Lat. rusticitas, ineptia.
αὐθάδης. [228] 9. Wilful, headstrong, unbending. Lat. ferox, pertinax. Cp. Long. de Subl. xxxii. 3 ὁ δὲ Δημοσθένης οὐχ οὕτως μὲν αὐθάδης ὥσπερ οὗτος (sc. ὁ Θουκυδίδης), κτλ.
αὐθέκαστος. [212] 23. Outspoken, downright. Lat. rigidus. In Plutarch’s Cato c. 6 Cato is described as ἀπαραίτητος ὢν ἐν τῷ δικαίῳ καὶ τοῖς ὑπὲρ τῆς ἡγεμονίας προστάγμασιν ὄρθιος καὶ αὐθέκαστος (cp. the rigida innocentia attributed to him by Livy xxxix. 40. 10). In Aristotle (Eth. Nic. iv. 7. 4) the αὐθέκαστος hits the mean between the ἀλαζών and the εἴρων.
αὐλός. [142] 2. Passage, channel. Lat. meatus.
αὐστηρός. [208] 26, [210] 15, [216] 17, 21, [228] 15, [232] 22, [248] 9. Austere, severe. Lat. severus (cp. Quintil. ix. 4. 97, 120, 128). Compare the antithetic expressions quoted from Dionysius in D.H. p. 186, and add de Demosth. c. 38 init. Also see s.v. στρυφνός, p. [323] infra.
αὐτάρκης. [212] 17, [282] 2. Sufficient, self-sufficing. Lat. sufficiens, per se sufficiens.
αὐτίκα. [98] 7, [194] 2, [256] 7, [268] 6. To begin with, for example. Lat. exempli gratia.
αὐτόματος. [256] 19. Self-acting, spontaneous. Lat. spontaneus, ultroneus. Cp. αὐτομάτως [212] 12; αὐτοματίζειν [204] 5; αὐτοματισμός [218] 3, [258] 1, 24. In [256] 19 ἐκ τοῦ αὐτομάτου = sponte sua, fortuito.