Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

κέλομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κέλομαι

Structure: κέλ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to urge on, exhort, command
  2. to call, call to, to call on for aid
  3. to call by name, call

Examples

  • ἡ δὲ μάλ’ αἰεὶ ἐσθέμεναι κέλεται καὶ πινέμεν, ἐκ δέ με πάντων ληθάνει ὅσσ1’ ἔπαθον, καὶ ἐνιπλησθῆναι ἀνώγει. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 3 2:2)
  • Μήδειαν Ιἄσων γαμέει, κέλεται δ’ Ἀφροδίτα. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , mixed meters24)
  • κέλεται δέ με θυμόσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 3822)
  • "ἄλλουσ μὲν κέλεται Τρῶασ καὶ πάντασ Ἀχαιοὺσ τεύχεα κάλ’ ἀποθέσθαι ἐπὶ χθονὶ πουλυβοτείρῃ, αὐτὸν δ’ ἐν μέσσῳ καὶ ἀρηίφιλον Μενέλαον οἰούσ ἀμφ’ Ἑλένῃ καὶ κτήμασι πᾶσι μάχεσθαι. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 1, 1:6)
  • μητέρα σὴν ἀπόπεμψον, ἄνωχθι δέ μιν γαμέεσθαι τῷ ὅτεῴ τε πατὴρ κέλεται καὶ ἁνδάνει αὐτῇ. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 2 10:7)

Synonyms

  1. to urge on

  2. to call

  3. to call by name

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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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