A.tell of, make famous, celebrate, “ἔργ᾽ ἀνδρῶν . . τά τε κλείουσιν ἀοιδοί” Od.1.338, cf.h.Hom.32.19; “ἐγὼ δέ κέ σε κλείω” Od.17.418, cf. Hes.Op.1, Th.105, Stesich.35, Inscr.Cos 218.7, prob. in Hermesian.7.33; “ἔν τ᾽ ἀλύροις κλέοντες ὕμνοις” E.Alc. 447; “Θέτιν . . κλέουσαι” Id.IA1046; κλέωἁ τὸν Ἀμύκλαις σιόν, Lacon. for κλέουσα τὸν Ἀμ. θεόν, Ar.Lys.1299:—Med., “γῆρυν, ἃν σοφοὶ κλέονται” E.Fr.369.7:—Pass., to be famed: c. dat., for a thing, φρένες . . ᾗς τὸ πάρος περ ἔκλε' (for ἐκλέεο) Il.24.202; “ἐγὼ δ᾽ ἐν πᾶσι θεοῖσι μήτι τε κλέομαι καὶ κέρδεσιν” Od.13.299; κλέεσθαι ἐν φορμίγγεσσι to be celebrated in lyric strains, Pi.I.5(4).27; ἔνθ᾽ . . ἀγοραὶ Πυλάτιδες κλέονται where are held the famous meetings, prob. in S.Tr.639 (lyr.).
κλέω (A), Ep. κλείω (as Hom. always in Act., but in Pass. only κλέομαι; Trag. only κλέω, in lyr.),
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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