αὔταρκες (autarkes)

αὔταρκες is an Ancient Greek form of αὐτάρκης, meaning “self-sufficient”. It is the nominative singular neuter adjective.

Found 54 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.41.1: ‘ξυνελών τε λέγω τήν τε πᾶσαν πόλιν τῆς Ἑλλάδος παίδευσιν εἶναι καὶ καθ’ ἕκαστον δοκεῖν ἄν μοι τὸν αὐτὸν ἄνδρα παρ’ ἡμῶν ἐπὶ πλεῖστ᾽ ἂν εἴδη καὶ μετὰ χαρίτων μάλιστ’ ἂν εὐτραπέλως τὸ σῶμα αὔταρκες παρέχεσθαι.

Plutarch, De communibus notitiis adversus Stoicos 24: … αυτὸν εὐλόγως; ἀξίαν δʼ ἔχει τὴν μεγίστην, ὃ πολλάκις αἱρεῖ λόγος ἀντὶ τοῦ μὴ ἀγαθοῦ προέσθαι; τέλειον δὲ καὶ αὔταρκές ἐστιν, οὗ παρόντος, ἂν μὴ τυγχάνωσι τῶν ἀδιαφόρων, οὐχ ὑπομένουσιν οὐδὲ βούλονται ζῆν; γέγονε δʼ ἕτερος λόγος …

Lucian of Samosata, Icaromenippus 30: … γῳδοῦσι καὶ τὰς τῶν λόγων ἀπορίας ἐκδιδάσκουσι, καὶ πρὸς μὲν τοὺς μαθητὰς καρτερίαν ἀεὶ καὶ σωφροσύνην καὶ τὸ αὐταρκὲς ἐπαινοῦσι καὶ πλούτου καὶ ἡδονῆς καταπτύουσι, μόνοι δὲ καὶ καθʼ ἑαυτοὺς γενόμενοι τί ἂν λέγοι τις ὅσα μὲν ἐσθ …

All forms of αὐτάρκης (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.