Τηλεκλειτοί

far-famed

Translated by David Whitehead20 Aug 2010Vetting: high3 revisions

5 words

[Meaning men] of great repute.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Τηλεκλειτοί· ἄγαν ἔνδοξοι.

Betacode

*thlekleitoi/: a)/gan e)/ndocoi.

Nominative plural of this adjective; as such, one of the standard epithets of the Trojans' allies in the Iliad. See e.g. Homer, Iliad 6.111. Same (or similar) glossing in other lexica and in a scholion on Homer, Iliad 14.321.
For the etymology cf. the proper name at tau 488.

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