- κέλης
- κέλης, ητος, ὁ, ([etym.] 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; soἥρως Κέλης Pl.Com.174.18
.2 pudenda muliebria, Eust.1539.34.
Greek-English dictionary (Αγγλικά Ελληνικά-λεξικό). 2014.