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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

  • πολλὴ γὰρ ἑτέρα ἡ παρακέλευσισ καὶ ἡ βοὴ ἀφ’ ἑκατέρων τοῖσ κελευσταῖσ κατά τε τὴν τέχνην καὶ πρὸσ τὴν ναυτικὴν φιλονεικίαν ἐγίγνετο· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 26 3:3)
  • Σηστὸν δ’ Ἀθηναίων ἐχόντων ἀφελόμενοσ οὐκ εἰάσεν οἰκεῖν Σηστίουσ, ἀλλὰ τοῖσ γενομένοισ ὑπ’ αὐτῷ κυβερνήταισ καὶ κελευσταῖσ ἔδωκε τὴν πόλιν καὶ τὴν χώραν νέμεσθαι. (Plutarch, , chapter 14 2:1)
  • δεῖ γὰρ οὐχ ὥσπερ ἐν στρατοπέδῳ διαγγέλοισ οὐδ’ ὥσπερ ἐν τριήρει χρῆσθαι κελευσταῖσ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 5, 5:1)

Related

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

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