αὐτόπτης, ἀυτοπτου, ὁ (αὐτός, ὈΠΤΩ), seeing with one's own eyes, an eye-witness (cf. ἀυτηκως one who has himself heard a thing): Luk_1:2. (In Greek writings from Herodotus down.)

αὐτόπτης autoptēs 1x an eye-witness, Luk_1:2

* αὐτόπτης , -ου , ὀ , an eye-witness: Luk_1:2 .†

αὐτόπτης [page 93] In P Oxy VIII. 1154 .8 (late i/A.D.) a man, who was perhaps absent on military service, writes to his sister not to be anxious, αὐτόπτης γάρ εἰμι τῶν τόπων καὶ οὐκ εἰμὶ ξέν [ο ]ς τῶν ἐνθάδε , for I am personally acquainted with these places and am not a stranger here (Edd.). Note Vettius Valens, p. 260 .30 , ἐγὼ δὲ οὐ λόγῳ καλῷ χρησάμενος , πολλὰ δὲ καμὼν καὶ παθὼν αὐτόπτης γενόμενος τῶν πραγμάτων δοκιμάσας συνέγραψα . The spell for procuring the visible appearance of the god invoked is introduced in the magical P Lond 122 .35 (iv/A.D.) (= I. p. 119) by the words ἐὰν θέλῃς PTON καὶ αυτοψαν αὐτὸν ἐκάλεσε , the evident intention being to correct αυτοψαν into the passive verbal αυτοπτον . Cf. also ib. 121 .319 (iii/A.D.) (= I. p. 94), and the derived adj. αὐτοπτικός in the same papyrus in a spell for raising one s own double, .335 αὐτοπτικὴ ἐὰν βούλῃς σεαυτὸν [ἰ ]δεῖν . For the subst. cf. P Tebt II. 286 .20 (A.D. 121 38) ἐ̣[κ ] τῆς α [ὐ ]τ̣οψ [ί ]ας ἣν ἐγὼ ἐπεῖδον my own personal observation (Edd.), P Amh II. 142 .12 (iv/A.D.) γενάμενοι ἐπὶ τὴν αὐτοψίαν καὶ ἀναμετρήσαντες τὸν κλῆρον , P Oxy X. 1272 .19 (A.D. 144) ἀξιῶ ἐὰν δόξῃ σοι παραγενέσθαι ἐπὶ τὴν αὐτοψίαν , come for a personal inspection (Edd.), and P Leid W xvi. 38.

αὐτόπτης [Etym: ὄψομαι, fut. of ὁράω] "seeing oneself, an eyewitness", Hdt.

seeing oneself, an eyewitness , (Herdotus Historicus) (ML)