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α4512Αὐτονομουμένη πόλιςautonomously-governed polis… of a military alliance, and even nominal independence (as, e.g., Aigina [Myth, Place]; contrast Figueira, 1993). Early literary references (e.g. Sophocles, Antigone 821f.) pose no difficulty, and attempts to explain these passages as somehow …Matched in noteshighshort

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Αὐτονομουμένη πόλις

autonomously-governed polis

One using its own laws and not subject to others.

Αὐτονομουμένη πόλις· ἡ τοῖς αὑτῆς νόμοις χρωμένη καὶ οὐχ ὑπακούουσα ἑτέροις.