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κληδών , όνος, ἡ, Ep. κλεηδών and κληηδών , (κλέω A)
A.omen, presage contained in a chance utterance, “χαῖρεν δὲ κλεηδόνι δῖος Ὀδυσσεύς” Od. 18.117, 20.120; ὁ μὲν τῇ κ. οὐδὲν χρεώμενος (supr. φήμη) Hdt.5.72; “κληδόνας τε δυσκρίτους ἐγνώρισ᾽ αὐτοῖς” A.Pr.486, cf. S.El.1110, Call.Epigr.1.14: in later Prose, “κληδόνων ἀκούσονται” LXX De.18.14 (v.l. -ονισμῶν), cf. Polystr.p.5 W.; “μαντικὴ ἀπὸ κληδόνων” Paus.9.11.7, cf. PMag.Oxy.886.22 (iii A.D.); “δέχομαι τὴν κ.” Luc.Laps.8: personified, in pl., Paus. l.c.; Φήμη καὶ Κ., = Lat. Aius Locutius, Plu.Cam. 30.
II. tidings, κληηδὼν πατρός news of my father, Od.4.317: abs., report, rumour, “ἐξ ἀμαυρᾶς κ.” A.Ch.853, cf. Hdt.9.101; “κληδόνες παλίγκοτοι” A.Ag.863; κ. ἐν ἁπάσῃ τῇ πόλει κατεῖχεν, ὅτι . . And.1.130.
2. fame, repute, “κ. ἀϋτεῖ” A.Ag.927; glory, “παῖδες γὰρ ἀνδρὶ κ. σωτήριοι” Id.Ch.505; κληδὼν καλή good report, S.OC258; “κ. αἰσχρά” E.Alc.315.
III. invocation, “λιτὰς δὲ καὶ κληδόνας πατρῴους” A. Ag.228 (lyr.); “κληδόνος βοή” Id.Eu.397.
b. shouting, S.Ichn. 232.
2. name, appellation, “κ. ἐπωνύμους” A.Eu.418.
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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