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

  • ποίαν Ἐρινὺν τήνδε δώμασιν κέλῃ ἐπορθιάζειν; (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, choral, strophe 55)
  • πειρᾷ ἐμεῖο γεραιὲ νεωτέρου, οὐδέ με πείσεισ, ὅσ με κέλῃ σέο δῶρα παρὲξ Ἀχιλῆα δέχεσθαι. (Homer, Iliad, Book 24 44:2)

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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