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τῆλε , Boeot. Πειλε- in pr. names, Adv.
A.= τηλοῦ (q.v.), at a distance, far off, Il.17.190, Od.2.183, 17.312; μάλα τ. Hes.Th.1015; “τ. πρὸς δυσμαῖς” A.Pers.232 (troch.).
2. to a distance, afar, “τῆλε δὲ χαλκὸς λάμπε” Il.10.153; “τ. βάλε” 20.482; “τ. πεσόντα” 18.395; “ᾤχετο τ. διὰ προμάχων” 11.358.
3. c. gen., far from, τ. φίλων καὶ πατρίδος αἴης ib.817, 16.539; “τ. δ᾽ ἀπεπλάγχθη σάκεος δόρυ” 22.291; cf. Od.2.333, 12.354, etc.; “τ. δ᾽ ἀπ᾽ αὐτοῦ κάππεσε” Il.23.880, cf. 16.117, 17.301, Od.5.315, Hes.Sc.275; also “τῆλ᾽ ἐξ . . ” Il.2.863.--Ep. word, used once by Pi., P.11.23, and once in Trag. (A. l.c.); never in Prose, cf. τηλαυγής.
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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