A.shaft of an arrow, arrow, only pl., κῆλα θεοῖο the shafts of Apollo, as the cause of sudden death, Il.1.53, 383; πιφαυσκόμενος τὰ ἃ κῆλα, of Zeus during a snowstorm, 12.280; στεροπὴν καὶ αἰθαλόεντα “κεραυνόν, κῆλα Διός” Hes.Th.708: metaph., [“φόρμιγγος] κῆλα καὶ δαιμόνων θέλγει φρένας” Pi.P.1.12; “φρικώδεα κῆλα πίφαυσκον” Orph. A.10:—also κήλεα νηῶν, = κᾶλα, ships' timbers, Hes.Fr.206 (s.v.l.).
κῆλον , τό,
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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