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κελευστής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κελευστής κελευστοῦ

Structure: κελευστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: keleu/w

Sense

  1. the signalman, who gave the time to the rowers

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἄλλοι δὲ τοίχουσ δεξιοὺσ λαιούσ τ’ ἴσοι ἀνὴρ παρ’ ἄνδρ’ ἕζονθ’, ὑφ’ εἵμασι ξίφη λαθραῖ’ ἔχοντεσ, ῥόθιά τ’ ἐξεπίμπλατο βοῆσ κελευστοῦ φθέγμαθ’ ὡσ ἠκούσαμεν. (Euripides, Helen, episode 3:2)
  • μετ’ αὐλῶν δ’ ὠρχοῦντο τὴν τοῦ κελευστοῦ καὶ τὴν καλουμένην πινακίδα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 27 2:2)
  • καθίσαντεσ ἐπὶ τῶν εἰρεσιῶν ἐν τῇ χέρσῳ τοὺσ ἄνδρασ τὴν αὐτὴν ἔχοντασ τάξιν ταῖσ ἐπ’ αὐτῶν τῶν πλοίων καθέδραισ, μέσον δ’ ἐν αὐτοῖσ στήσαντεσ τὸν κελευστήν, ἅμα πάντασ ἀναπίπτειν ἐφ’ αὑτοὺσ ἄγοντασ τὰσ χεῖρασ καὶ πάλιν προνεύειν ἐξωθοῦντασ ταύτασ συνείθιζον ἄρχεσθαί τε καὶ λήγειν τῶν κινήσεων πρὸσ τὰ τοῦ κελευστοῦ παραγγέλματα. (Polybius, Histories, book 1, chapter 21 2:1)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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