an order, command, behest, Aesch., Soph., etc.; a call, summons, Aesch.:— the word of command in battle, Hdt.; also the call of the κελευστής (q. v.), which gave the time to the rowers, ἀπὸ ἑνὸς κελεύσματος all at once, Thuc.; ἐκ κελεύσματος at the word of command, Aesch.
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