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θεόκλυτος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: theoklytos

Principal Part: θεόκλυτος θεόκλυτον

Structure: θεοκλυτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: κλύω

Sense

  1. calling on the gods

Examples

  • λιταῖσί σε θεοκλύτοις ἀυτοῦσαι πελαζόμεσθα. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, antistrophe 15)
  • τίκτει δὲ μετ οὐ πολὺ Ἰσμαῆλον, θεόκλυτον ἄν τις εἴποι, διὰ τὸ εἰσακοῦσαι τὸν θεὸν τῆς ἱκεσίας. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 1 240:3)

Synonyms

  1. calling on the gods

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

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