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ὀκέλλω ,=κέλλω, Ar.Ach.1159 : impf.
1. trans. of seamen, run [a ship] aground or on shore, τὰς νέας Hdt.l.c., Th.l.c. ; of a wave, E.IT1379.
2. πλόον . steer one's course, Nic.Th.295 : metaph., στίβον . ib.321.
II. intr. of the ship, run aground, Th.2.91, X.An.7.5.12 : metaph., Ar. l.c. ; “ἄλγημα . . ἐς γλουτὸν ὀσφὺν ὀκέλλειAret.SD2.12, cf. CA2.7.—Prose writers use ὀκέλλω, never κέλλω (q. v.).
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (8):
    • Euripides, Iphigeneia in Taurus, 1379
    • Herodotus, Histories, 8.84
    • Thucydides, Histories, 4.11
    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 7.5.12
    • Aristophanes, Acharnians, 1159
    • Aretaeus, De curatione acutorum morborum libri duo, 2.7
    • Aretaeus, De causis et signis acutorum morborum (lib. 2), 2.12
    • Thucydides, Histories, 2.91
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