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κελεύετε (keleuete)

κελεύετε is an Ancient Greek form of κελεύω, meaning “to order, command, urge”. It is the 2nd person plural present active indicative.

Found 30 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.118.10: οἱ δὲ ἰόντες τέλος ἔχοντες ἰόντων, ᾗπερ καὶ ὑμεῖς ἡμᾶς κελεύετε. αἱ δὲ σπονδαὶ ἐνιαυτὸν ἔσονται.

Plutarch, Praecepta gerendae reipublicae 13·3: … μεγάλη πρᾶξις, αὑτὸν ἐπὶ ταύτην τάξαντα πρῶτον εἶτα προσελέσθαι τὸν φίλον, ὡς ὁ Διομήδης εἰ μὲν δὴ ἕταρόν γε κελεύετὲ μʼ αὐτὸν ἑλέσθαι, πῶς ἂν ἔπειτʼ Ὀδυσῆος ἐγὼ θείοιο λαθοίμην κἀκεῖνος; αὖ πάλιν ἀνταποδίδωσιν οἰκείως τὸν ἔπαι …

Polybius, Histories 18.5.6: τοῦτο γὰρ ἀναφθέγξασθαι καὶ καθόλου μέν ἐστιν ὑπερήφανον, οὐ μὴν ἀλλὰ Ῥωμαίων μὲν λεγόντων ἀνεκτόν, Αἰτωλῶν δʼ οὐκ ἀνεκτόν· ποίας δὲ κελεύετέ με"

All forms of κελεύω (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.