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

  • τὸν ξεῖνόν με κέλονται, ὅτισ περὶ βουσὶν ὑπέστη, δῶρ’ ἀποδεξαμένην ὀλοῶν ῥύσασθαι ἀέθλων. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 15:8)
  • πολλαὶ συμπαίσδέν με κόραι τὰν νύκτα κέλονται, κιχλίζοντι δὲ πᾶσαι, ἐπεί κ’ αὐταῖσ ὑπακούσω δῆλον ὅ τ’ ἐν τᾷ γᾷ κἠγώ τισ φαίνομαι ἦμεν. (Theocritus, Idylls, 41)
  • ἤδη γάρ ῥα πατήρ τε κασίγνητοί τε κέλονται Εὐρυμάχῳ γήμασθαι· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 15 2:4)
  • οὐκ ἀί̈εισ ὅτι δή μοι ἐπιλλίζουσιν ἅπαντεσ, ἑλκέμεναι δὲ κέλονται; (Homer, Odyssey, Book 18 2:2)
  • τὰσ δ’ ἄλλοι με κέλονται ἀγινέμεναί σφισιν αὐτοῖσ ἔδμεναι· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 20 34:9)

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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