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Headword:
Klêtos
Adler number: kappa,1798
Translated headword: having been invoked, having been summoned
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] he who has been called,[1] and has come not of his own accord.
"When the Lacedaemonians questioned the oracle about war, [the oracle] said the the god would come both summoned and unsummoned: and for those who fought strongly there would be a victory."[2]
Greek Original:Klêtos: ho keklêmenos, kai mê authairetos hêkôn. chrômenois Lakedaimoniois peri polemou, kai klêtos ho theos ephê kai aklêtos hêxein: kai polemousi kata kratos nikên esesthai.
Notes:
[1] Different glossing, according to Adler, in the
Ambrosian and
Laurentian lexica. For the feminine of this adjective, see
kappa 1793.
[2] cf.
alpha 899,
kappa 254.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; history; military affairs; religion; rhetoric
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 7 March 2008@22:13:25.
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