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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

  • ὥστ’ ἔμοιγ’ ἰνδάλλεται ὁμοιότατοσ κλητῆροσ εἶναι πωλίῳ. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Prologue 5:12)
  • εἰ δὲ μή, τάχα κλητῆρεσ ἐπιλείψουσι τοὺσ καλουμένουσ. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Episode, lyric 4:28)
  • μὰ Δί’ ἀλλὰ κλητήρ εἰμι νησιωτικὸσ καὶ συκοφάντησ ‐ ὦ μακάριε τῆσ τέχνησ. (Aristophanes, Birds, Episode, lyric12)
  • ἕκτοσ δὲ κώμων ἕβδομοσ δ’ ὑπωπίων ὁ δ’ ὄγδοοσ κλητῆροσ · (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 3 1:5)
  • κλητῆρεσ, ὁ Α, βότρυσ, γογγυλίδεσ, ἄπιοι, μῆλα, Β. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 46 1:7)
  • προσκαλοῦμαί σ’ ὅστισ εἶ πρὸσ τοὺσ ἀγορανόμουσ βλάβησ τῶν φορτίων, κλητῆρ’ ἔχουσα Χαιρεφῶντα τουτονί. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Episode, lyric 3:14)
  • τόν γέ τοι κλητῆρ’ ἔχει. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Episode, lyric 3:21)
  • οἴμοι μηδαμῶσ ἡμῖν παρὰ τὴν θάλατταν, ἵν’ ἀνακύψεται κλητῆρ’ ἄγουσ’ ἑώθεν ἡ Σαλαμινία. (Aristophanes, Birds, Prologue 4:20)
  • βουλόμενοσ δὲ τὸ μέλλον λαθεῖν, φυλάξασ τὴν τελευταίαν ἡμέραν τῶν διαιτητῶν, τὴν τοῦ θαργηλιῶνοσ ἢ τοῦ σκιροφοριῶνοσ γιγνομένην, εἰσ ἣν ὁ μὲν ἦλθε τῶν διαιτητῶν, ὁ δ’ οὐκ ἦλθε, πείσασ τὸν πρυτανεύοντα δοῦναι τὴν ψῆφον παρὰ πάντασ τοὺσ νόμουσ, κλητῆρ’ οὐδ’ ὁντινοῦν ἐπιγραψάμενοσ, κατηγορῶν ἔρημον, οὐδενὸσ παρόντοσ, ἐκβάλλει καὶ ἀτιμοῖ τὸν διαιτητήν· (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 112:4)

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

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