Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon

A.“κέλευον” Il.23.767: fut. κελεύσ-σω , Ep. inf. -“σέμεναι” Od. 4.274: aor. ἐκέλευσα, Ep. κέλ- Il.20.4: pf. “κεκέλευκα” Lys.1.34, Luc. Demon.44:—Med., aor. “ἐκελευσάμην” Hp.Nat.Puer.13: more freq. in compds. δια-, ἐπι-, παρα-κελεύομαι (q.v.):—Pass., fut. -ευσθήσομαι D.C.68.9: aor. “ἐκελεύσθην” Hdt.7.9.ά, S.OC738, Th.7.70: pf. “κεκέλευσμαι” X.Cyr.8.3.14, Luc.Sacr.11: plpf. “ἐκεκέλευστο” D.C.78.4 (ἐκελεύθην v.l. in Hdt.7.9.ά, and “κεκέλευμαι” IG22.1121.13 (iv A.D.), v.l. in App.BC5.141 are later forms). (A lengthd. form of κέλομαι, q.v.):—prop. urge, drive on, [“ἵππους] ὁ γέρων ἐφέπων μάστιγι κέλευε . . κατὰ ἄστυ” Il.24.326: hence, exhort, bid,

1. c.acc. pers. et inf., order one to do, “σ᾽ ἔγωγε . . κελεύω ἐς πληθὺν ἰέναι” 17.30, cf. 2.11, al., Hdt.1.8,24, etc.; ἐκέλευσε τὸν παῖδα περιμεῖναί ἑ κελεῦσαι he bade the lad bid us to wait for him, Pl.R.327b; ὁ νόμος τὸν ἐπιβουλεύσαντα κελεύει φονέα εἶναι, i.e. bids that he be held guilty, Antipho 4.2.5; “ὁ τὸν νόμον κελεύων ἄρχειν δοκεῖ κελεύειν ἄρχειν τὸν θεὸν καὶ τὸν νοῦν” Arist. Pol.1287a29; “ἐς τὴν Μίλητον ἔπεμπον κελεύοντες σφίσι τὸν Ἀστύοχον βοηθεῖν” Th.8.38; request, Lys.16.16; opp. ἐπιτάττειν, IG12.76.33.

2. c. acc. pers. et rei, “σφῶϊ μὲν οὔ τι κελεύω” Il.4.286; τά με θυμὸς . . κελεύει (sc. εἰπεῖν) 7.68, etc.: with inf. subjoined, τί με ταῦτα κελεύεις . . μάχεσθαι; 20.87.

3. c. acc. pers. only, εἰ μὴ θυμός με κελεύοι (sc. φείδεσθαι) Od.9.278; ὥς με κελεύεις (sc. μυθεῖσθαι) 11.507: in Prose, ἐκέλευσε τοὺς ἕνδεκα ἐπὶ τὸν Θηραμένην ordered them [to go] against him, ordered them to seize him, X.HG2.3.54; κ. τινὰς ἐπὶ τὰ ὅπλα ib.20:—Pass., receive orders, Arist.Pol.1253b34.

4. c.acc. rei only, ὃ μὴ κελεύσαι Ζεύς (Herm. for -σει) A.Eu. 618; “ὁ νόμος τὰ μὲν κελεύων τὰ δ᾽ ἀπαγορεύων” Arist.EN1129b24:— Pass., τὸ κελευόμενον commands, orders, Hdt.7.16, Antipho Soph. 61, X.Cyr.4.1.3: pl., Pl.R.340a.

5. c. dat. pers. folld. by inf., urge or order one to do, κηρύκεσσι . . κέλευσε κηρύσσειν . . Il.2.50, Od. 2.6, etc.; ἀλλήλοισι κέλευον ἅπτεσθαι νηῶν . . Il.2.151; “ἑτάροισι . . ἐκέλευσα ἐμβαλέειν” Od.9.488: in later Prose, D.S.19.17, Ceb.32.4 codd., Luc.DMort.1.1, Phalar.Ep.121.1, etc.

6. rarely c. dat. pers. et acc. rei, τί δ᾽ ἐστὶν ὃ κελεύεις ἐμοί; Men.Pk.224, cf. Ael.NA 9.1.

7. c. dat. pers. only, “ἵπποισι καὶ Αὐτομέδοντι κελεύσας” Il. 16.684; cf.infr.111.

8. abs., freq. in Hom., “ὡς σὺ κελεύεις” Il.23.96, al.; “λέξω, κελεύεις γάρ” A.Ch.107; κελεύων, opp. αὐτοχειρίῃ, Democr.260; “κελευούσης τῆς Πυθίης” Hdt.6.36; “κελεύοντος καὶ δεομένου” Lys.5.1.

9. c. inf. only, σιγᾶν κελεύω I order silence, S.Ph. 865; “οὐκ ἂν κελεύσαιμ᾽ εὐσεβεῖν” Id.Ant.731; recommend, propose, Lys. 12.25, D.4.21, etc.; opp. οὐκ ἐάω, Hdt.6.109, X.Ath.2.18.

II. of inferiors, urge, entreat, Il.24.599, Od.10.17, Hdt.1.116.

III. of the boatswain, give time to rowers, c.dat., Pl.R.396b: abs., Ath.12.535d.

2. sing a chanty, S.E.M.6.24.