τελευτάω: Difference between revisions

|mdlsjtxt=<br /><b class="num">I.</b> to [[complete]], [[finish]], [[accomplish]], Lat. [[perficio|perficere]], Hom.: to [[fulfil]] an [[oath]] or [[promise]], Hom.; τελευτᾶν τινι κακὸν [[ἦμαρ]] to [[bring]] [[about]] an [[evil]] day for one, Od.:—so in Attic, ποῖ τελευτῆσαί με χρή; to [[what]] end must I [[bring]] it? Soph.; [[Ζεύς|Ζεὺς]] [[ὅ τι]] νεύσῃ, [[τοῦτο]] τελευτᾷ Eur., etc.:—Pass. to be [[fulfilled]], to [[come]] to [[pass]], [[happen]], Hom., Eur.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> to [[bring]] to an end, esp., τελευτάω τὸν αἰῶνα = to [[finish]] [[life]], i. e. to die, Hdt.; τελευτάω βίον Aesch.:—also, c. gen., τελευτᾶν βίου to make an end of [[life]], Xen.; so, λόγου τελευτάω Thuc.: —also without βίον, to end [[life]], to die, Hdt., Attic; τελευτάω ὑπό τινος to die by [[another]]'s [[hand]] or [[means]], Hdt.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> intr.<br /><b class="num">1.</b> to be [[accomplished]], Hdt.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> to [[come]] to an end, to end, Lat. finire, Hdt., Attic:— foll. by a prep., τ. ἔς τι to [[come]] to a [[certain]] end, [[issue]] in, Hdt., Attic; ποῖ ( = ἐς τί) τελευτᾷ; in [[what]] does it end? Aesch.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> to die, v. supr.<br /><b class="num">4.</b> the [[part]]. τελευτῶν, ῶσα, ῶν, was used as adv., at the end, at [[last]], τελευτῶν ἔλεγε Hdt.; κἂν ἐγίγνετο πληγὴ τελευτῶσα [[there]] would [[have]] been a [[fray]] to [[finish]] with, Soph.; τὰς ὀλοφύρσεις τελευτῶντες ἐξέκαμνον at [[last]] they got [[tired]] of [[mourning]], Thuc.<br /><b class="num">5.</b> of a [[country]], to [[come]] to an end, Hdt.