A.beauty, esp. of body, Il.9.130, 20.235, etc.; “κάλλεΐ τε στίλβων καὶ εἵμασιν” 3.392; “κάλλεϊ καὶ Χάρισι στίλβων” Od.6.237; “περί τ᾽ ἀμφί τε κ. ἄητο” h.Cer.276: in a concrete sense, as though external to the body, “κάλλεϊ μέν οἱ πρῶτα προσώπατα καλὰ κάθηρεν ἀμβροσίῳ, οἵῳ Κυθέρεια Χρίεται” Od.18.192: freq. i<*> Trag. and Prose, “γυναῖκε . . κάλλει ἀμώμω” A.Pers.185; “κ. σώματος” Democr.105; opp. αἶσχος, Pl.Smp.201a: in a general sense, “τῶν ἔργων τῷ μεγέθει καὶ τῷ κάλλει Χαλεπὸν ἐξισῶσαι τοὺς ἐπαίνους” Isoc.12.36; “Χώρη κάλλεϊ καὶ ἀρετῇ μέγα ὑπερφέρουσα” Hdt.8.144, cf. Pl.Chrm.157e, D.S.1.30; of ships, Th.[3.17]; “ἀρετὴ ἂν εἴη κ. ψυχῆς” Pl.R.444d; τὸ τῶν μαθημάτων κ. Id.Grg.475a; ἐς κάλλος with an eye to beauty, so as to set off her beauty, E.El.1073; οὐ γὰρ ἐς κ. τύχας δαίμων δίδωσιν so as to regard beauty or show, Id.Tr.1201; ὁ εἰς κ. βίος, opp. αἰσχρουργία, X. Ages.9.1; “ἐς κ. ζῆν” Id.Cyr.8.1.33; but ἐς κ. κυνηγετεῖν hunt for pleasure, Arr.Cyn.25.9: in pl., σωμάτων κάλλη, opp. ψυχῶν ἀρετή, Pl. Criti.112e.
2. concrete, of persons, “κ. κακῶν ὕπουλον” S.OT1396; of a bird, Clitarch.21 J. codd.; mostly of women, a beauty, “τὴν θυγατέρα, δεινόν τι κάλλος καὶ μέγεθος” X.Cyr.5.2.7; “Γαλάτεια, κάλλος Ἐρώτων” Philox.8 (nisi leg. θάλος)“; Ἑλένη καὶ Λήδα καὶ ὅλως τὰ ἀρχαῖα κάλλη” Luc.DMort.18.1, cf. Im.2.
3. in pl., beautiful things, as garments and stuffs, “ἐν ποικίλοις . . κάλλεσιν βαίνειν” A.Ag.923; βάπτειν τὰ κ. Eup.333, cf. Pl.Phd.110a, Poll.7.63, Hsch. s.v.; “κυπαρίττων ὕψη καὶ κάλλη” Pl.Lg.625c; “μεγέθεσιν κάλλεσίν τε ἔργων” Id.Criti.115d, etc.; τὰ κ. τῆς ἑρμηνείας beauties of style, Longin.5.1 (also in sg., τὸ κ. τῆς ἑρμ. D.H.Comp.3); κάλλεα κηροῦ beautiful works of wax, i.e. honeycombs, AP9.363.15 (Mel.); “κάλλη τοιαῦτα καὶ τοσαῦτα ἱερῶν” D.3.25; κ. οἰκοδομημάτων, = καλὰ οἰκοδομήματα, Plu.2.409a, cf. 935a, D.C.65.15.
4. Pythag. name for six, Iamb.in Nic. p.34 P.