A.holding the keys: hence, having charge or custody of a place, “Ἔρωτα τᾶς Ἀφροδίτας θαλάμων κλῃδοῦχον” E.Hipp.540 (lyr.); Ἰώ, κ. Ἥρας her priestess, A.Supp.291, cf. Phoronis 4, E.IT131 (lyr.), IG22.974.23,3.172.7; “κ. Διός” E.Hyps.Fr.3(1)iv 28; of Pallas, tutelary goddess, Ar.Th.1142 (lyr.); τῶν συνδέσμων ἑκάστου κ. Μοῖρα protectress of . . , Plu.2.591b; of Aeacus, IG14.1746; “κ. νεκύων πύλαι” AP7.391 (Bass.); of Hecate, Orph.Fr.316.
κλείδουχ-ος , Att. κληδ- , ον, (ἔχω)
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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