Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

κελευστός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κελευστός

Structure: κελευστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: keleu/w

Sense

  1. ordered, commanded

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)

Synonyms

  1. ordered

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Derived

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

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