τελέω: Difference between revisions

|mdlsjtxt=<br /><b class="num">1.</b> to [[complete]], [[fulfil]], [[accomplish]], and, [[generally]], to [[execute]], [[perform]], Lat. perficere, Hom.: —Pass., Hom.; ἅμα [[μῦθος]] ἔην, τετέλεστο δὲ [[ἔργον]] "no [[sooner]] said [[than]] done, " Il.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> to [[fulfil]] one's [[word]], Hom.: to [[grant]] one the [[fulfilment]] of [[anything]], τί τινι Hom.; τ. νόον τινί to [[fulfil]] his [[wish]], Il.; τελέσαι κότον, χόλον to [[glut]] his [[fury]], [[wrath]], Il.: c. inf., οὐδ' ἐτέλεσσε φέρειν he succeeded not in [[bringing]], Il.; ὅρκια τελεῖν, like ὅρκον τελευτᾶν, to [[complete]] or [[confirm]] an [[oath]], Il.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> to make [[perfect]], ἀρετάν Pind.; τ. τινα to [[bless]] him with [[perfect]] [[happiness]], Pind.; so, τελεσθεὶς [[ὄλβος]] Aesch.:—also, to [[bring]] a [[child]] to [[maturity]], [[bring]] it to the [[birth]], Eur.<br /><b class="num">4.</b> to [[bring]] to an end, [[finish]], end, ὁδόν Il., etc.; without ὁδόν, to [[finish]] one's [[course]] to a [[place]], [[arrive]] at it, Thuc.<br /><b class="num">5.</b> of [[time]], Od., etc.:— Pass., ἤματα μακρὰ τελέσθη Od.: of men, to [[come]] to one's end, Aesch.<br /><b class="num">6.</b> intr. like Pass. to be [[fulfilled]], [[turn]] out so and so, Aesch., Soph.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> to pay [[what]] one owes, pay one's dues, Il.: [[generally]], to pay, [[present]], Hom., Attic: absol. to pay tax, Hdt.:—Pass., of [[money]], to be paid, Hdt.; of persons, to be [[subject]] to tax or [[tribute]], Dem.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> to lay out, [[spend]], Hdt.:—Pass. to be spent or expended, Hdt.; ἐς τὸ [[δεῖπνον]] τετρακόσια τάλαντα τετελεσμένα laid out [[upon]] the [[supper]], Hdt.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> [[since]], in [[many]] Greek cities, the citizens were distributed [[into]] classes acc. to [[their]] [[taxable]] [[property]], τ. εἴς τινας meant to be rated as belonging to a class, Lat. censeri [[inter]], τ. ἐς Ἕλληνας, ἐς Βοιωτούς to belong to the Greeks, the Boeotians, Hdt.; εἰς ἀστοὺς τ. to [[become]] a [[citizen]], Soph.; εἰς γυναῖκας ἐξ [[ἀνδρῶν]] τ. to [[become]] a [[woman]] [[instead]] of a man, Eur.: [[hence]], πρὸς τὸν πατέρα τελέσαι to [[compare]] with his [[father]], Hdt.<br /><b class="num">III.</b> like [[τελειόω]] II, to make [[perfect]], i. e. to [[initiate]] in the mysteries, Plat., Dem.:—Pass. to [[have]] [[oneself]] [[initiated]], Lat. initiari, Ar., Plat., etc.; Διονύσῳ τελεσθῆναι to be [[consecrated]] to [[Dionysus]], [[initiated]] in his mysteries, Hdt.:—c. acc., τελεσθῆναι Βακχεῖα Ar.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> metaph., στρατηγὸς τελεσθῆναι to be [[formally]] appointed [[general]], Dem.; τετελεσμένος σωφροσύνῃ a [[votary]] of [[temperance]], Xen.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> also of [[sacred]] rites, to [[perform]], Eur., Anth.