A.order, command, A.Eu.235, S.Ant.1219 (pl.), etc.; call, summons, A.Ch.751 (pl.): in Prose, word of command in battle, Hdt.4.141, 7.16, cf. E.Hec.929 (lyr.); “ὁ Κύριος ἐν κ. καταβήσεται ἀπ᾽ οὐρανοῦ” 1 Ep.Thess.4.16; also, the call of the κελευστής (q.v.), which gave the time to the rowers, ἀπὸ ἑνὸς κελεύσματος all at once, Th.2.92, D.S.3.15; “ἐξ ἑνὸς κελεύματος” Sophr.25; ἐκ κελεύματος at the word of command, A.Pers.397, cf.E.IT1405; “καχάζετε . . ἀπὸ κ.” Eub.8; “στρατεύσονται ἀφ᾽ ἑνὸς κ.” LXX Pr.30.27; of the boatswain's pipe, “κέλευσμα προσαυλεῖν” Phld.Mus.p.15 K.; also, the call of the driver to his horses, “κελεύματι μόνον καὶ λόγῳ ἡνιοχεῖται” Pl.Phdr.253d; of the huntsman to his hounds, X.Cyn.6.20; “κ. κυνηγετῶν” S.Ichn.225. (κέλευμα is the more ancient form, as in A.Pers.397, Ch.751, S., Sophr., Pl. (codd.l.c.), X., ll.cc., v.l. in Hdt. ll. cc., Th. l. c.)
κέλ-ευσμα or κέλ-ευμα (v. infr.), ατος, τό, (κελεύω)