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τελέθω

teletho

come into being

Appears 12 times across Homer's epics.

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Dictionary (LSJ)

τελέθω, 3sg. Ion. Iterat. τελέθεσκε h.Cer. 241:—A. poet. Verb, cogn. with τέλομαι, τέλλω, and πέλω (qq. v.), come into being, νὺξ τελέθει Il. 7.282, 293; τελέθουσι γυναῖκες Emp. 65.1: then simply to be so and so, ἀριπρεπέες τελέθουσι, μινυνθάδιοι τ., Il. 9.441, Od. 19.328; ζαχρηεῖς τ. Il. 12.347; ζαφλεγέες τ. 21.465; ἀμείνων τελέθει Od. 7.52; παντοῖοι τ. 17.486; ἵνα τʼ ἄρνες ἄφαρ κεραοὶ τ. 4.85; so also Hes. Op. 181,506, Thgn. 770, Orac. ap. Hdt. 7.141, Epich. 170, Pi. P. 2.78, and lyr. passages of Trag., as A. Supp. 1040, E. Andr. 783 (not in S.); not in Att. Prose, but in X. An. 3.2.3, 6.6.36; also Ion., Hp. Morb. 2.5, al.; and Dor., Tab.Heracl. 1.111, Theoc. 5.18, al., f.l. in Diotog. ap. Stob. 4.1.133 (codd. SMA). II. Med. τελέθομαι, become, ὀπίσω δὲ θεοὶ τελέθονται Ps.-Phoc. 104.
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