A.“τελέοντες” Od.3.262, cf. 4.776, al., “τελείει” 6.234, 23.161): Ep. impf. “τέλεον” Il.23.373, 768; “ἐτέλειον” 9.456, 15.593; Ion. “τέλεσκον” Call.Dian.123, Fr.434; “τελέεσκον” Q.S.8.213: fut. “τελέσω” Pi.N.4.43, X.Cyr.8.6.3, (δια-) Pl.R.425e codd., D.21.66 codd. (-τελῶ Cobet in both places), PAvrom.2A9 (i B.C.); Ep.also τελέω, Il.8.415, 12.59, Od.2.256, etc.; Att. “τελῶ” S.El.1435, Ar.Ra.173, Pl.Prt.311b: aor. (ἐ）“τέλεσα” Od.5.390; Ep. τέλεσσα and “ἐτέλεσσα” Il.246, Il.12.222, 23.543, 559, al. (inf. “τελέσσαι” Pi.P.3.9); Att. “ἐτέλεσα” Th.4.78, etc.: pf. “τετέλεκα” Pl.Ap.20a, (δια-) D.18.203:—Med., fut. (v. infr.): aor. “ἐτελεσάμην” Id.38.18, etc.; pf. “τετέλεσμαι” Inscr.Prien.11.34 (iii B.C.):—Pass., Ep. impf. “ἐτελείετο” Il.1.5: fut. “τελεσθήσομαι” Thphr.Char.16.12; fut. Med. in this sense, “τελεῖται” A.Pr.929, Ag.68 (anap.), etc., “τελέεσθαι” Il.2.36, “τελεῖσθαι” Od.23.284; part. “τελεόμενος” Hdt.1.206, “τελεύμενος” Id.3.134: aor. “ἐτελέσθην” Od.4.663, etc.; Aeol. inf. “τελέσθην” Sapph. Supp.1.4: pf. “τετέλεσμαι” Il.18.74, etc.: plpf. “τετέλεστο” 19.242: Cret. pf. part. “τετελημένος” GDI4963; Ion. 3pl. pf. τετέληνται dub. in SIG 1024.22 (Myconus, iii/ii B.C.): (τέλος):—fulfil, accomplish, execute, perform, freq. in Poets from Hom. downwds., less freq. in Prose (except in signfs. 11 and 111); “τελέσαι ἔργον τε ἔπος τε” Od.2.272, cf. Il.1.108, 523, etc.; “τ. φιλοτήσια ἔργα” Od.11.246; μ᾽ ἔφαντο ἄξειν εἰς Ἰθάκην, οὐδ᾽ ἐτέλεσσαν but did it not, 13.212; “τ. ἀέθλους” 3.262; “πόνον” 23.250; “πύματον δρόμον” Il.23.373; “ὁδόν” Od.2.256, Mimn. 11; sts. without “ὁδόν, ἄτερ καμάτοιο τέλεσσαν ἤματι τῷ αὐτῷ καὶ ἀπήνυσαν οἴκαδ᾽ ὀπίσσω” Od.7.325; “ὁδῷ δὲ τὰ ξυντομώτατα ἐξ Ἀβδήρων ἐς Ἴστρον ἀνὴρ εὔζωνος ἑνδεκαταῖος τελεῖ” Th.2.97; ταύτῃ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐς “Φάρσαλον ἐτέλεσε” Id.4.78; κίνδυνον τελέσσαι perform a dangerous feat, Epich.99; “ἔργον” S.El.1399; “δίδυμα κακά” A.Th.782 (lyr.); “προστάγματα” Pl.Lg.926a, cf. d:—Pass., Hdt.1.206; καὶ εἰ τετελεσμένον ἐστί, = τελεῖσθαι δύναται, Od.5.90, Il.14.196; “τετέλεστο δὲ ἔργον” 7.465; αὐτίκ᾽ ἔπειθ᾽ ἅμα μῦθος ἔην, τετέλεστο δὲ ἔργον 'no sooner said than done', 19.242; “ἐάνπερ ἐπὶ λόγῳ ἔργα τελῆται” Pl. R.389d, cf. Plt.288c; “γραφὴ τῶν τετελεσμένων ἔργων” PPetr.3p.340 (iii B.C.); “τετέλεσται” Ev.Jo.19.30 (cf. 28).
2. fulfil one's word, τ. ἔπος, μῦθον, ὑπόσχεσιν, Il.14.44, Od.4.776, 10.483; “τελέω τὰ πάροιθεν ὑπέστην” Il.23.20; τελέσαι κότον, χόλον, glut one's fury, wrath, 1.82, 4.178: also, grant one the fulfilment or accomplishment of anything, τ. νόον τινί fulfil his wish, 23.149, cf. Od.22.51; “τ. ἐέλδωρ” Hes.Sc.36; “λιτάς” A.Th.627 (lyr.); κατάρας ib.724 (lyr.); rarely c. inf., οὐδ᾽ ἐτέλεσσε φέρων δόμεναι he succeeded not in . . , Il.12.222 (cf. “ἀνύω” 1.6):—Pass., to be fulfilled, 2.36,330, al.: esp. pf. part., [“μῦθος] τετελεσμένος ἐστί” Il.1.388, cf.h.Ven.26; elsewh. in Hom. only neut., “τὸ δὲ καὶ τετελεσμένον ἔσται” Il.1.212, cf. 8.286, al.:—Med., τελέσασθαι δίκην bring a suit to issue, D.38.18, cf. 39.18 (Pass.).
3. grant in full, work out, “ἀγαθόν τινι, ὅ τι φρεσὶν ᾗσι μενοινᾷ” Od.2.34; “νόστον” 15.112; “μόγις δ᾽ ἐτέλεσσε Κρονίων” 3.119; “τ. λυγρά” 18.134; “γῆρας ἄρειον” 23.286; “κακὰ κήδεα τ. τινί” Il.18.8, cf. Od.4.699, 18.389, S. Ant.3; θεῶν τελεσάντων (sc. αὐτό) Pi.P.10.49; “εὖ τελεῖ θεός” A. Th. 35.
4. ὅρκια τελεῖν make an oath effective, Il.7.69: later, execute a legal document, δημόσιος χρηματισμὸς τετελεσμένος δι᾽ ἐπιτηρητῶν ἀγορανομίας Mitteis Chr.200.10 (iii A.D.), cf. POxy.290.22 (i A.D.), etc.
5. bring to fulfilment or perfection, “ἀρετὰν . . πεπρωμέναν τελέσει” Pi.N.4.43; τ. τινά bless him with perfect happiness, Id.I.6(5).46 (dub.); so “τετελεσμένον ἐσλόν” Id.N.9.6; “τελεσθεὶς ὄλβος” A.Ag.751 (lyr.): also, bring a child to maturity, bring it to the birth, E.Ba.100 (lyr.).
6. bring to an end, finish, end, “ἐξ ἀγαθοῦ γὰρ ἀρξάμενος τελέω τὸν λόγον εἰς ἀγαθόν” Lyr.Alex. Adesp. 21.2.
7. of Time, “ὅτε δὴ τρίτον ἦμαρ . . τέλεσ᾽ Ἠώς” Od.5.390; βίον τ. Simon.36, S.Ant.1114; πολλοὺς τρόχους ἡλίου ib.1065; “τελευτὴν τοῦ βίου” Id.Tr.79; also τ. νοῦσον come to the end of it, Hes. Th.799:—Pass., “περὶ δ᾽ ἤματα μακρὰ τελέσθη” Od.10.470, cf. Hes. Th.59; τετελεσμένον εἰς ἐνιαυτόν ib.795; ἐν τοῖς ἔτεσι τοῖς δὶς ἑπτὰ τετελ. Arist.HA581a14, cf. Metaph.994a26; of men, come to one's end, “οἴμοι . . δεσπότου τελουμένου” A.Ch.875 (s. v.l.).
8. sts. intr., like the Pass., come to an end, be fulfilled, turn out, οὐ γὰρ οἶδ᾽ ὅπῃ τελεῖ ib.1021, cf. Pers.225 (troch.), S.El.1417 (lyr.): later = τελέθω, to be, “φύσει τελῶν μνησίκακος” Tz.H.2.83, al.
II. pay what one owes, what is due, “λιπαρὰς τελέουσι θέμιστας” Il.9.156, 298 (unless this means 'will administer good laws'); νῆας . . αἵ κεν τελέοιεν ἕκαστα ἄστε᾽ ἐπ᾽ ἀνθρώπων ἱκνεύμεναι bring supplies of everything, Od. 9.127: generally, pay, present, δῶρα, δωτίνην, Il.9.598, Od.11.352; “μισθόν” Il.21.457, Eup.4; “ἀργύριον” Pl.Ly.208b; “ἀργύριον . . μισθόν” Id.Prt.311d; “δύο δραχμὰς μισθόν” Ar.Ra.173: metaph., “τ. ὕμνον” Pi.P. 1.79, 2.13; τ. ψυχὰν Ἀΐδᾳ, i.e. die, Id.I.1.68.
b. esp. pay tax, duty, toll, “φόρον” Pl.Alc.1.123a; “τὰ τέλη” Cratin.Jun.9.5, Arist.Ath. 55.3, cf. Pl.Lg.847b; τ. μετοίκιον pay the tax of a μέτοικος, ib. 850b; “ἱππάδα” Is.7.39; “θητικόν” Arist.Ath.7.4, Lex ap. D.43.54; “ξενικά” D.57.34; “συντάξεις” Aeschin.3.91; freq. in Papyri, “οἱ τελοῦντες τὰ καθήκοντα εἰς τὸ βασιλικόν” PTeb.5.174 (ii B.C.), etc.; τ. σῖτον pay one's contribution of corn, X.HG5.3.21: abs., pay tax, IG12.1.2,3, Hdt.2.109:—Pass., of money, etc., to be paid, Id.9.93; of persons, to be in receipt of rent, “χώραν ἀτέλεστον ἔχουσιν αὐτοὶ τετελεσμένοι” D. Prooem.55.
2. lay out, spend, “χρήματα μεγάλα” Hdt.3.137, Pl. Ap.20a, cf. X.Cyr.8.1.13:—Pass., to be spent or expended, Hdt.2.125; ἐς τὸ δεῖπνον τετρακόσια τάλαντα τετελεσμένα laid out upon the dinner, Id.7.118; ἕνδεκα μυριάδας μεδίμνων τελεομένας ἐπ᾽ ἡμέρῃ ἑκάστῃ ib.187, cf. Pl.Lg.955e.
3. since, in many Greek cities, the citizens were distributed into classes acc. to their taxable property, τ. εἴς τινας meant to belong to a class, to be reckoned among, τ. ἐς Ἕλληνας, ἐς Βοιωτούς, belong to the Greeks, the Boeotians, Hdt.2.51, 6.108; εἰς ἀστοὺς τ. become a citizen, S.OT 222; εἰς ἄνδρας τ. come to man's estate, Pl.Lg.923e; εἰς γυναῖκας ἐξ ἀνδρὸς τ. become a woman instead of a man, E.Ba.822; ἕκαστος ἡμῶν ὑπό τινα τελεῖ δαίμονα ὃς πάσης ἡμῶν τῆς ζωῆς ἐπάρχει belongs . . , Herm. in Phdr.p.93 A.
4. from the last sense perh. may be expld. the phrase, κοῖός τις δοκέοι ἀνὴρ εἶναι πρὸς τὸν πατέρα τελέσαι to compare with his father, Hdt.3.34 (τελέσαι om. cod. E, secl. Hude).
III. initiate in the mysteries, τινα Pl.Euthd.277d; “τῇ μητρὶ τελούσῃ τὰς βίβλους ἀναγιγνώσκειν” D.18.259; τυμπανίζειν καὶ τ. Plu.2.60a; “τ. τῷ Διονύσῳ” Milet.6.23:—Pass., to have oneself initiated, Ar.Nu.258; “τετελεσμένος” Pl.Phd.69c, Berl.Sitzb.1927.169 (Cyrene), etc.; “ἐτέλεις, ἐγὼ δ᾽ ἐτελούμην” D.18.265; Διονύσῳ τελεσθῆναι to be consecrated to Dionysus, initiated in his mysteries, Hdt.4.79; “ὀργίοισι” Hp.Lex5, cf. X.Smp.1.10: c. acc., “Βακχεῖ᾽ ἐτελέσθη” Ar.Ra.357 (anap.); “τελέους τελετὰς τελούμενος” Pl.Phdr.249c, cf. 250b; also “τ. μεγάλοισι τέλεσι” Id.R.560e.
b. in Magic, endow a thing with potency, consecrate it, PMag.Par.1.1744, PMag.Lond.46.242, 121.590, Sch.Ar.Pl. 884.
c. enchant, Παλλάδιον τετελεσμένον Eust.ad D.P.620.
2. metaph., τελεσθῆναι στρατηγός to be formally appointed general, D. 13.19; τετελεσμένος σωφροσύνῃ a votary of temperance, X.Oec.21.12.
3. also of sacred rites, perform, “ἱερά” E.Ba.485, cf. IT464 (anap.); “θυσίαν τοῖς θεοῖς” D.S.4.34, cf. Plu.Thes.16; “ὄργια” IG14.1183 (Rome), Paus.4.14.1; γάμον, γάμους, Call.Ap.14, Lyc. 1387:— Pass., Pl.Lg.775a.
4. Pass., of women, to be married, GDI3721.5,9 (Cos).
