Ἐλελεῦ

'Eleleu' [is] a warriors' exclamation. For indeed those going forward into battle would sound the 'eleleu' along with some rhythmic movement; just as Achaeus of Eretria↗, too, in the Philoctetes makes Agamemnon announce to the Acheans: "it is time to help: and I will lead. Let someone take the grip of a sword in his hand, and another with all speed make sign with the war trumpet: it is time to hasten, eleleu!"¹ Perhaps also the Callimachean [phrase] "give a customary shout to the god" is such a thing.² Aristophanes in Birds [writes]: "eleleu!,³ run, let down the beak, where it was necessary to remain."⁴