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κέλης , ητος, ὁ, (κέλλω)
A.courser, riding-horse, Ὀδυσσεὺς ἀμφ᾽ ἑνὶ δούρατι βαῖνε, κέληθ᾽ ὡς ἵππον ἐλαύνων bestrode one plank, as if riding on a horse, Od.5.371 (κ. ἵππος also in later Prose, SIG314A7,36, al. (Arc., iv B.C.), Plu.Alex.3, Paus.6.14.4); “κ. καὶ ἅρματα” Hdt.7.86; “ἵππον κέλητ᾽ ἀσκοῦντα” Eup.152; “κέλης κέλητα παρακελητιεῖ” Ar.Pax 901; freq. in the titles of Pindar's Odes, as O.1; “νίκας Πυθοῖ καὶ Ἰσθμοῖ καὶ Νεμέᾳ τεθρίπποις τε καὶ κέλησι” Pl.Ly.205c, cf. Plin.HN 34.19; κ. πωλικός, τέλειος, IG2.966.
II. fast-sailing yacht with one bank of oars, Hdt.8.94, Th.4.9, 8.38, X.HG1.6.36, Ephipp.5.17 (anap.), Plb.5.94.8, Plin.HN7.208, etc.
III. sens. obsc. (with play on 1), Ar.Lys.60; so “ἥρως Κέλης” Pl.Com.174.18.
2. pudenda muliebria, Eust.1539.34.
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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