A.famous, renowned, “νῆσος” Sol.19.3; freq.epith.of cities, Pi.O.3.2, 6.6, Epich.185; esp.of Athens, Pi.Fr.76, A.Pers.474, E.Ph.1758 (troch.); of persons, “κ. οἰκιστήρ” Pi.P.1.31; μνῆμα τόδε κλεινοῖο Μεγιστία Epigr. ap. Hdt.7.228; “Διὸς κλεινὴ δάμαρ” A.Pr.834; “ὁ κ. Φιλοκτήτης” S.Ph.575; ὁ πᾶσι κ. Οἰδίπους καλούμενος all-renowned, Id.OT8; also ironically, “ὁ πᾶσι νυμφίος” Id.El.300; “τόξοισι κλεινός” A.Pr.872; of things, -“ότερον γάμον” Pi.P.9.112; “τὰ κ. αἰνίγματα” S.OT1525 (troch.); “κ.ὄνομα” Ar.Av.810; “κ. τόξα” S.Ph.654: Sup., -“ότατος στέφανος” E.IA1529 (anap.); “σοφία -οτάτη” Ar.Nu.1024: neut. pl. as Adv., “στρατηλατήσας κλεινά” E.HF 61: rare in Prose, Pl.Lg.721c, Sph.243a; καὶ τοῦτο κλεινὸν αὐτοῦ is well-known of him, Luc.Peregr.18.
κλεινός , ή, όν, Aeol. κλεεννός (q.v.), (κλέος) poet. Adj.
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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