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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

  • καὶ ὅτι ἀληθῆ λέγω, λαβέ μοι τὴν μαρτυρίαν τῶν κλητήρων. (Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40, 23:4)
  • μυρία δὲ ταῦτα ὄντα καὶ σμικρὰ νόμιμα, καθ’ ἃ δεῖ τὰσ τιμωρίασ γίγνεσθαι, λήξεών τε πέρι δικῶν καὶ προσκλήσεων καὶ κλητήρων, εἴτ’ ἐπὶ δυοῖν εἴτ’ ἐφ’ ὁπόσων δεῖ καλεῖσθαι, καὶ πάντα ὁπόσα τοιαῦτά ἐστιν, οὔτ’ ἀνομοθέτητα οἱο͂́ν τ’ εἶναι γέροντόσ τε οὐκ ἄξια νομοθέτου, νομοθετούντων δ’ αὐτὰ οἱ νέοι πρὸσ τὰ τῶν πρόσθεν νομοθετήματα ἀπομιμούμενοι, σμικρὰ πρὸσ μεγάλα, καὶ τῆσ ἀναγκαίασ αὐτῶν χρείασ ἐμπείρωσ ἴσχοντεσ, μέχριπερ ἂν πάντα ἱκανῶσ δόξῃ κεῖσθαι· (Plato, Laws, book 8 117:3)

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

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