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κατα-κλείς , εῖδος, or κατάκλεις , ειδος, Ion. and Ep. κατα-κληΐς , ηῖδος, ἡ,
A.instrument for shutting or fastening doors, distd. from the bolt (μοχλός) and bolt-pin (βάλανος), Ar.V.154, IG11(2).158A 65 (Delos, iii B.C., pl.); αἱ κ. τῶν ἀξόνων linch-pins, prob.l.in D.S.17.53.
2. pawl, check-hook, Ph.Bel.68.5, HeroBel.79.13.
3. κατακληΐς βελέμνων case for arrows, quiver, Call.Dian.82; cap or case fitted to an engine, Bito 59.3; also, socket for the arrow in the γαστραφέτης, Id.62.9.
4. pl., locks on a canal, PPetr.2p.43 (iii B.C.).
5. sheath for a pin, in pl., Sch.Od.18.294, Aristeas65, cf. Hsch. s.v. κληῖδα.
II. = ἀκρώμιον, Heliod. ap. Orib.48.48.1, Sor.2.62, Gal.2.766.
2. first rib, Id.18(2).956.
3. clavicular region, Id.14.703, Hdn.4.13.5.
III. final remark, conclusion, Cic.Att. 9.18.3, prob. l. in ib.2.3.3.
2. close of a verse or set of verses, Heph.5.1, 6.6, Aristid.Quint.1.27, Sch.Ar.Ach.659.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (6):
    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 2.3.3
    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 9.18.3
    • Aristophanes, Acharnians, 659
    • Aristophanes, Wasps, 154
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 17.53
    • Homer, Odyssey, 18.294
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