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κλητήρ

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κλητήρ κλητῆρος

Structure: κλητηρ (Stem)

Etym.: kale/w

Sense

  1. one who calls, a summoner, a witness who gave evidence that the legal summons had been served, licet antestari)

Declension

Third 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

  • τὸν ἀνδροφόντην, τὸν πόλεωσ ταράκτορα, μέγιστον Ἄργει τῶν κακῶν διδάσκαλον, Ἐρινύοσ κλητῆρα, πρόσπολον φόνου, κακῶν τ’ Ἀδράστῳ τῶνδε βουλευτήριον. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, strophe 3 1:3)
  • κλητῆρα δὲ κατ’ ἐμοῦ τόν τε ἀδελφὸν τὸν αὑτοῦ τὸν Ἀρεθούσιον τοῦτον ἐπιγράφεται, οὗπέρ ἐστιν τὰ ἀνδράποδα ταῦτα, καὶ ἄλλον τινά· (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 16:3)
  • ὅτε δὲ τιμωρεῖσθαι ᾤμην δεῖν, καὶ ἐκτείσασ τῷ δημοσίῳ τὸ ὄφλημα, ἐπειδὴ ἐπυθόμην τὴν ἐπιβουλήν, ἐβάδιζον ἐπὶ τὸν κλητῆρα τὸν ὁμολογοῦντα κεκλητευκέναι, τὸν Ἀρεθούσιον, τῆσ ψευδοκλητείασ κατὰ τὸν νόμον, ἐλθὼν εἰσ τὸ χωρίον τῆσ νυκτόσ, ὅσα ἐνῆν φυτὰ ἀκροδρύων γενναῖα ἐμβεβλημένα καὶ τὰσ ἀναδενδράδασ ἐξέκοψε, καὶ φυτευτήρια ἐλαῶν περιστοίχων κατέκλασεν, οὕτωσ δεινῶσ ὡσ οὐδ’ ἂν οἱ πολέμιοι διαθεῖεν. (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 17:2)

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

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