Strong G2573καλῶς
well
- Transliteration
- kalōs
- Pronunciation
- kal-oce'
- Morphology
- Greek Adverb
Definition
Adverb from G2570; well (usually morally): - (in a) good (place) honestly + recover (full) well.
Detailed definition
καλῶς
adv. (καλός), [in LXX for parts and derivatives of יָטַב;]
finely, rightly, well: Luk.6:48, 1Co.14:17, Gal.4:17 5:7, Jas.2:3; λέγειν, λαλεῖν, etc., Mat.15:7, Mrk.7:6 12:28, Luk.6:26 20:39, Jhn.4:17 8:48 13:13 18:23, Act.28:25; as exclamation of approval, Mrk.12:32, Rom.11:20; κ. ποιεῖν, Mat.12:12, 1Co.7:37-38 Jas.2:8, 19; with dative of person(s) (cl. accusative; WM, § 32, 1 β), Luk.6:27; with accusative of thing(s), Mrk.7:37; with ptcp., Act.10:33 (M, Pr., 131), Php.4:14, 2Pe.1:19, 3Jn.6; προϊστάναι (-ασθαι), 1Ti.3:4 3:12 5:17; διακονεῖν, 1Ti.3:13; ἀνατρέφεσθαι, Heb.13:18; ironically, Mrk.7:9, 2Co.11:4 (but see CGT, in l); κ. ἔχειν, to be well: Mrk.16:18. Compar., κάλλιον (for superl., B1., § 44, 3), very well: Act.25:10.†
(AS)
adv. (καλός), [in LXX for parts and derivatives of יָטַב;]
finely, rightly, well: Luk.6:48, 1Co.14:17, Gal.4:17 5:7, Jas.2:3; λέγειν, λαλεῖν, etc., Mat.15:7, Mrk.7:6 12:28, Luk.6:26 20:39, Jhn.4:17 8:48 13:13 18:23, Act.28:25; as exclamation of approval, Mrk.12:32, Rom.11:20; κ. ποιεῖν, Mat.12:12, 1Co.7:37-38 Jas.2:8, 19; with dative of person(s) (cl. accusative; WM, § 32, 1 β), Luk.6:27; with accusative of thing(s), Mrk.7:37; with ptcp., Act.10:33 (M, Pr., 131), Php.4:14, 2Pe.1:19, 3Jn.6; προϊστάναι (-ασθαι), 1Ti.3:4 3:12 5:17; διακονεῖν, 1Ti.3:13; ἀνατρέφεσθαι, Heb.13:18; ironically, Mrk.7:9, 2Co.11:4 (but see CGT, in l); κ. ἔχειν, to be well: Mrk.16:18. Compar., κάλλιον (for superl., B1., § 44, 3), very well: Act.25:10.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G2573 appears in 36 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- well30
- good2
- full1
- honestly1
- place1
- recover1
First verses
- Matthew 5:44But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
- Matthew 12:12How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.
- Matthew 15:7Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,
- Mark 7:6He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
- Mark 7:9And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
- Mark 7:37And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well: he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.
- Mark 12:28And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all?
- Mark 12:32And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he:
- Mark 16:18They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
- Luke 6:26Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.
- Luke 6:27But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you,
- Luke 20:39Then certain of the scribes answering said, Master, thou hast well said.
- John 4:17The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband:
- John 8:48Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?
- John 13:13Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am.
- John 18:23Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil: but if well, why smitest thou me?
- Acts 10:33Immediately therefore I sent to thee; and thou hast well done that thou art come. Now therefore are we all here present before God, to hear all things that are commanded thee of God.
- Acts 28:25And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after that Paul had spoken one word, Well spake the Holy Ghost by Esaias the prophet unto our fathers,
- Romans 11:20Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
- 1 Corinthians 7:37Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.
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Word family
Detailed Greek dictionary
Included with: καλός, ή, όν,
Aeolic dialect κάλος (see. below), α, ον, Boeotian dialect καλϝός [Refs 6th c.BC+ (“Schwyzer” 538 (6th c.BC))]:—
A beautiful, of outward form, frequently of persons, κάλλιστος ἀνὴρ ὑπὸ Ἴλιον ἦλθεν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.673: in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)] usually in the phrase κ. τε μέγας τε [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.108, +others)]; μέγας καὶ κ. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.513; καλή τε μεγάλη τε 13.289, 15.418)]; καλὸς δέμας beautiful of form,[Refs 5th c.BC+ (17.307; κ. ἰδέᾳ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 10 (11). 103; εἶδος κάλλιστος 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.2.1; κ. τὸ σῶμα [prev. author] “Mem.” 2.6.30; τὰς ὄψεις 4th c.BC: Theopompus Historicus 195)]; Χορῷ καλή beauteous in the dance, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.180)]: with infinitive, καλλίονες καὶ μείζονες εἰσοράασθαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.396)]; ἐσορᾶν κ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 8.19)]: frequently of parts of the body, fair, shapely, κ. πρόσωπα, ὅμματα, παρήϊα, σφυρά, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.285, 23.66, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.208, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.147; Χρώς 5.354, +others)]; of clothes, εἵματα, φάρεα, Χιτών, Χλαῖνα, πέδιλα, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.111, 24.277, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.43, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.365, 1.96; πέπλος κάλλιστος ποικίλμασιν ἠδὲ μέγιστος 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.294)]; of arms and armour, κνημῖδες, ἀσπίς, σάκος, κόρυς, φάσγανα, ἔντεα, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (3.331, 11.33, 22.314, 18.612, 15.713, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.18)]; of buildings, manufactured articles, etc., αὐλὴ κ. τε μεγάλη τε [Refs (14.7)]; κ. δώματα, τεῖχος, πόλιες,[Refs 8th c.BC+ (3.387, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.447, 18.491; ἄμαξα, τράπεζα, θρόνος, 24.267, 11.629, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.131)]; also τέμενος, ἀγρός, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.314, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 24.206; so after 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, Λύδιον κ. ἔργον 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 19, etc.)]; ἐέρσα κ. ead.[Refs (“Supp.” 25.12.)]
A.2 in Attic dialect added to a name in token of love or admiration, as Ἀρίσημος κ. [Refs (“IG” 12.921, etc.)]; ἐν τοῖσι τοίχοις ἔγραφ᾽ Ἀθηναῖοι καλοί” [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 144, compare “V.” 98)]; Ἀλκιβιάδης ὁ καλός, Σαπφὼ ἡ καλή, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus Alcaeus1.113b, “Phdr.” 235c.)]
A.2.b ἡ Καλή or Καλλίστη, as epithet, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 140 (Lyric poetry), 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 1.29.2, “CIG” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” 4445 (from Beroea).)]
A.2.c Καλοί, οἱ, divinities worshipped in childbirth, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“IG” 5(1).1445 (Messene, 2nd c.BC).)]
A.3 τὸ καλόν beauty, [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 79, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 21 (_anapaest meter_))], etc.; τὰ καλά the proprieties or elegancies of life, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.8, 207; ἁπάντων καλῶν ἄμμορος 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.84; αἱ τέχναι ἃς πηγάς φασι τῶν κ. εἶναι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.2.13.)]
A.II with reference to use, good, of fine quality, κ. λιμήν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.263)]; Βορέῃ ἀνέμῳ.. καλῷ fair, [Refs (14.253, 299)]; κ. ἀργύριον, opposed to κίβδηλον, genuine silver, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 3.1.9)]; opposed to ἀποτετριμμένον, good silver currency, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“PCair.Zen.” 21.33 (3rd c.BC))]; ἐλαῖαι [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“PHib.” 1.49.12 (3rd c.BC))]; γῆ [NT+4th c.AD+ (NT.Luke.8.15; κ. οἶνος “PFay.” 133.8 (4th c.AD))]; στρατόπεδον κάλλιστον [LXX+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.60; ἀνταπεδώκατε πονηρὰ ἀντὶ καλῶν LXX.Gen.44.4; κ. ἐς στρατιάν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.3.6; πρός τι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Hp.Ma.” 295c, “Grg.” 474d, etc.)]: with infinitive, λόφος κάλλιστος τρέχειν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.8.26)]; ἐν καλῷ [τόπῳ] in a good place, καθίζεσθαι, ὁρμεῖν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 292, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.1.25; ἐν καλῷ μὲν τοῦ κόλπου καὶ τῶν πόλεων, ἐν κ. δὲ τοῦ τὴν Χώραν βλάπτειν, [prev. work] 6.2.9)]; ἐν καλῷ under favourable circumstances, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.59.60)]; ἐν κ. (i.e. Χρόνῳ) in good time, in season, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 1106)]; ἐν οὐ κ. [Refs ([prev. author] “Or.” 579)]; ἐν καλῷ [ἐστι] with infinitive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 384 (so καλόν ἐστι)] with infinitive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Ph.” 1155 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 278, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.2); ἐς καλόν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 78, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Meno” 89e, “Smp.” 174e)]; τί γὰρ ἐμοὶ ζῆν καλό; what is the good of life to me? [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.594)]; καλῇ πίστει, = Latin bona fide, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (PTeb. 418.14 (3rd c.AD).)]
A.II.2 of sacrifices, auspicious, σφάγια [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 379; οἰωνοί 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 1333; ἱερά 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.92; τὸ τέλος κ. τῆς ἐξόδου 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.2.9; κ. τὰ ἱερὰ ἦν αὐτῷ [prev. author] “Cyr.” 3.2.3)]: with infinitive, ἰέναι.. κ. ἡμῖν τὰ ἱερὰ ἦν [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “An.” 2.2.3: Comedy texts, τὰ τῆς πυγῆς κ. (for τοῦ θεοῦ) 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 868.)]
A.III in a moral sense, beautiful, noble, honourable, in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)] only in neuter, οὐ καλὸν ἔειπες [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.166, compare 17.381; μεῖζον κλέος.. καὶ κάλλιον 18.255)]; frequently καλόν [ἐστι] with infinitive, κ. τοι σὺν ἐμοὶ τὸν κήδειν ὅς κ᾽ ἐμὲ κήδῃ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.615)]; οὐ γὰρ ἔμοιγε κ. (i.e. ἄρχειν)[Refs 8th c.BC+ (21.440; οὐ κ. ἀτέμβειν οὐδὲ δίκαιον 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.294)]; so in Trag., καλόν μοι τοῦτο ποιούσῃ θανεῖν [LXX+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 72, etc.; μάθετε καλὸν ποιεῖν LXX.Isa.1.17)]: comparative, οὐ μέν τοι τόδε κάλλιον οὐδὲ ἔοικε [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 7.159, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.52; after 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus frequently of actions, etc., κάλων κἄσλων 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica “Papyrus fragments” in E. Diehl, 2.4 (unless of persons here))]; κ. ἔργματα noble deeds, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 4(3).42, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 839, etc.)]; ἀναστροφὴ κ. [NT (NT.1Pet.2.12)]: in plural, excellences, πλῆθος καλῶν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 13.45; πολλῶν καλῶν δεῖ τῷ καλόν τι μωμένῳ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 938)]; τὰ τοῦ παιδὸς κ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 8.17.)]
A.III.2 τὸ κ. moral beauty, virtue, honour, opposed to τὸ αἰσχρόν, [Refs 6th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Mem.” 1.1.16, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 183d, etc.; ὅττι καλόν, φίλον ἐστί, τὸ δ᾽ οὐ καλὸν οὐ φίλον ἐστίν 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 17, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 881 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Lysis” 216c; οὐ ταὐτὸν ἡγῇ σύ, ὡς ἔοικας, κ. τε καὶ ἀγαθὸν καὶ κακὸν καὶ αἰσχρόν [prev. author] “Grg.” 474d, compare “Smp.” 201e)]; τοὐμὸν κ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 300.)]
A.III.3 of persons, in early writers coupled with ἀγαθός, see at {καλοκἀγαθός}; later κ. ποιμήν [NT (NT.John.10.11)]; κ. στρατιώτης [NT (NT.2Tim.2.3.)]
A.IV in Attic dialect and Trag. frequently ironically, fine, specious, γέρας κ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 209; κ. γὰρ οὑμὸς βίοτος ὥστε θαυμάσαι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 393, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 652; κ. Χάρις 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 9.65; κ. ὕβριν ὑβρισμένοι [prev. author] 23.121; καί σοι.. θωπεῦσαι καλόν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1003; μετ᾽ ὀνομάτων καλῶν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.89.)]
B Degrees of comparative: comparative καλλίων, ον, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.52, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.396, etc.: _neuter_ κάλιον [ᾰ] 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 134)]: superlative κάλλιστος, η, ον, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.233, etc.)]; late καλλιώτερος or -ότερος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“POxy.” 1672.6 (1st c.AD), Scholia 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 966; also καλώτερος 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus “Epim.” 69.)]
C adverb:—Poets frequently use neuter καλόν as adverb, κ. ἀείδειν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.570, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.155; καλά 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.326)]; later τὸ κ. [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 3.3, 18, 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Epigrammata” 53, 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 1.54.)]
C.II regular adverb καλῶς (Doric dialect καλώς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophron Comicus 22))], well, rightly, οὐδ᾽ ἔτι κ. οἶκος ἐμὸς διόλωλε [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.64)]; κ. ζῆν, τεθνηκέναι, etc., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 479, etc.)]; κ. φρονεῖν to be in one's right mind, [Refs ([prev. author] “fragment” 836; οὐ κ. ταρβεῖς [prev. author] “Tr.” 457)]; κ. ἀγωνιεῖσθαι fairly, on the merits of the case, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 13.88)]; Χρήματα δατῆθθαι κ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“Leg.Gort.” 4.39; κ. εἰρημένα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 576.6; κάλλιον λέγεις 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 161b; κάλλιστ᾽ ἂν εἴποι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1172: frequently in phrase καλῶς καὶ εὖ, καλῶς τε καὶ εὖ, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 319e, “Prm.” 128b, etc.)]
C.II.2 of good fortune, well, happily, κ. πράσσειν, ={εὖ π}., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 979, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 271; κ. καὶ εὖ πράττειν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Charmides” 172a)]; κ. ἔχειν to be well, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 799, etc.; κ. ἔχει σοι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 946, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 816)]; κ. ἔχει with infinitive, 'tis well to.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 3.11.1: with _genitive_, κ. ἔχειν τινός)] to be well off in respect to a thing, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἐπικυήσιος” 29; κ. παράπλου κεῖσθαι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.36; εἰ κ. σφίσιν ἔχοι [prev. author] 4.117; οὔτε τοῖς θεοῖς ἔφη κ. ἔχειν, εἰ.. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.3.3; καλλιόνως ἔχει 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 169e, etc.; κάλλιστα ἕζει [prev. author] “Hp.Ma.” 295b.)]
C.II.3 καλῶς, ={πάνυ}, thoroughly, altogether, τὸν κ. εὐδαίμονα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 317, = 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 934; κ. ἔξοιδα [prev. author] “OC” 269, compare “OT” 1008; κ. ὑπὸ τοῦ πυρὸς διεφθάρθαι 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 13.108)]: comparative, κάλλιον εἰδέναι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Hp.Ma.” 300d)]; κάλλιον ἐοικέναι to be just like, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Genit.” 8.)]
C.II.4 κ. ἀκούειν to be well spoken of, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Μονόστιχοι - Fragmenta Comicorum Graecorum” 285, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.177e.)]
C.II.5 κ. ποιῶν rightly, deservedly, κ. ποιῶν ἀπόλλυται [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 863, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 1.28, +others, 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.232)]; in requests, κ. ποιήσεις πριάμενος, etc., [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“PPetr.” 3p.143 (3rd c.BC))], etc.; also with infinitive, κ. π. γράψαι [Refs 1st c.BC+ (“BGU” 1203.7 (1st c.BC), etc.)]
C.II.6 in answers, to approve the words of the former speaker, well said! [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1216, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 39.15)]; also, to decline an offer courteously, no, thank you! [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 888; κ. ἔχει 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 165, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Περικειρομένη” 266)]; πάνυ κ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 512; ἀμέλει κ. [prev. work] 532: _superlative_, κάλλιστ᾽, ἐπαινῶ [prev. work] 508; ἔχει κάλλιστα 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 15.3.)]
C.II.7 ironically, finely, καλῶς ἐρήμης γ᾽ ἂν σὺ γῆς ἄρχοις μόνος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 739, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 588, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 344, 4th-3rd c.BC: Dinarchus Orator 1.69.)]
C.II.8 κ. ὁ ἱερεύς hurrah for the priest! [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“SIG” 1109.14 (Athens, 2nd c.AD).)]
C.II.9 repeated with the adjective, καλὴ καλῶς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 253, “Pax” 1330, “Ec.” 730; καλὸς κάλλιστά τε ῥέξαις 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 9.94.)]
C.II.10 comparative καλλιόνως [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Tht.” [same place], “Lg.” 660d)]: superlative καλλίστως [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“PMag.Par.” 1.2443,2465, Scholia 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 310.)]
D for compounds, see at {καλλι-, καλο-}.
E Quantity: ᾱ in Epic dialect and early [Refs 8th c.BC+ (4th c.AD: Iamblichus Philosophus Poets (except “hymnus ad Venerem” 29, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 63, “Th.” 585))]: ᾰ in Lyric poetry (except κᾱλῶς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 12.206) and Trag. (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 314, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1381 are corrupt).--In Eleg., epigram, and Bucol. Poets ᾰ or ᾱ (the latter usually in thesi))]; τὰ μὴ κᾰλὰ κᾱλὰ πέφανται [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 6.19, compare 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 7.115, 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Jovem” 55)].--In comparative, ῐ in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, ῑ in Trag. and later.)]
Aeolic dialect κάλος (see. below), α, ον, Boeotian dialect καλϝός [Refs 6th c.BC+ (“Schwyzer” 538 (6th c.BC))]:—
A beautiful, of outward form, frequently of persons, κάλλιστος ἀνὴρ ὑπὸ Ἴλιον ἦλθεν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.673: in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)] usually in the phrase κ. τε μέγας τε [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.108, +others)]; μέγας καὶ κ. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.513; καλή τε μεγάλη τε 13.289, 15.418)]; καλὸς δέμας beautiful of form,[Refs 5th c.BC+ (17.307; κ. ἰδέᾳ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 10 (11). 103; εἶδος κάλλιστος 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.2.1; κ. τὸ σῶμα [prev. author] “Mem.” 2.6.30; τὰς ὄψεις 4th c.BC: Theopompus Historicus 195)]; Χορῷ καλή beauteous in the dance, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.180)]: with infinitive, καλλίονες καὶ μείζονες εἰσοράασθαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.396)]; ἐσορᾶν κ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 8.19)]: frequently of parts of the body, fair, shapely, κ. πρόσωπα, ὅμματα, παρήϊα, σφυρά, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.285, 23.66, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.208, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.147; Χρώς 5.354, +others)]; of clothes, εἵματα, φάρεα, Χιτών, Χλαῖνα, πέδιλα, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.111, 24.277, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.43, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.365, 1.96; πέπλος κάλλιστος ποικίλμασιν ἠδὲ μέγιστος 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.294)]; of arms and armour, κνημῖδες, ἀσπίς, σάκος, κόρυς, φάσγανα, ἔντεα, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (3.331, 11.33, 22.314, 18.612, 15.713, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.18)]; of buildings, manufactured articles, etc., αὐλὴ κ. τε μεγάλη τε [Refs (14.7)]; κ. δώματα, τεῖχος, πόλιες,[Refs 8th c.BC+ (3.387, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.447, 18.491; ἄμαξα, τράπεζα, θρόνος, 24.267, 11.629, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.131)]; also τέμενος, ἀγρός, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.314, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 24.206; so after 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, Λύδιον κ. ἔργον 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 19, etc.)]; ἐέρσα κ. ead.[Refs (“Supp.” 25.12.)]
A.2 in Attic dialect added to a name in token of love or admiration, as Ἀρίσημος κ. [Refs (“IG” 12.921, etc.)]; ἐν τοῖσι τοίχοις ἔγραφ᾽ Ἀθηναῖοι καλοί” [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 144, compare “V.” 98)]; Ἀλκιβιάδης ὁ καλός, Σαπφὼ ἡ καλή, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus Alcaeus1.113b, “Phdr.” 235c.)]
A.2.b ἡ Καλή or Καλλίστη, as epithet, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 140 (Lyric poetry), 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 1.29.2, “CIG” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” 4445 (from Beroea).)]
A.2.c Καλοί, οἱ, divinities worshipped in childbirth, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“IG” 5(1).1445 (Messene, 2nd c.BC).)]
A.3 τὸ καλόν beauty, [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 79, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 21 (_anapaest meter_))], etc.; τὰ καλά the proprieties or elegancies of life, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.8, 207; ἁπάντων καλῶν ἄμμορος 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.84; αἱ τέχναι ἃς πηγάς φασι τῶν κ. εἶναι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.2.13.)]
A.II with reference to use, good, of fine quality, κ. λιμήν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.263)]; Βορέῃ ἀνέμῳ.. καλῷ fair, [Refs (14.253, 299)]; κ. ἀργύριον, opposed to κίβδηλον, genuine silver, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 3.1.9)]; opposed to ἀποτετριμμένον, good silver currency, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“PCair.Zen.” 21.33 (3rd c.BC))]; ἐλαῖαι [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“PHib.” 1.49.12 (3rd c.BC))]; γῆ [NT+4th c.AD+ (NT.Luke.8.15; κ. οἶνος “PFay.” 133.8 (4th c.AD))]; στρατόπεδον κάλλιστον [LXX+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.60; ἀνταπεδώκατε πονηρὰ ἀντὶ καλῶν LXX.Gen.44.4; κ. ἐς στρατιάν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.3.6; πρός τι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Hp.Ma.” 295c, “Grg.” 474d, etc.)]: with infinitive, λόφος κάλλιστος τρέχειν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.8.26)]; ἐν καλῷ [τόπῳ] in a good place, καθίζεσθαι, ὁρμεῖν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 292, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.1.25; ἐν καλῷ μὲν τοῦ κόλπου καὶ τῶν πόλεων, ἐν κ. δὲ τοῦ τὴν Χώραν βλάπτειν, [prev. work] 6.2.9)]; ἐν καλῷ under favourable circumstances, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.59.60)]; ἐν κ. (i.e. Χρόνῳ) in good time, in season, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 1106)]; ἐν οὐ κ. [Refs ([prev. author] “Or.” 579)]; ἐν καλῷ [ἐστι] with infinitive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 384 (so καλόν ἐστι)] with infinitive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Ph.” 1155 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 278, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.2); ἐς καλόν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 78, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Meno” 89e, “Smp.” 174e)]; τί γὰρ ἐμοὶ ζῆν καλό; what is the good of life to me? [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.594)]; καλῇ πίστει, = Latin bona fide, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (PTeb. 418.14 (3rd c.AD).)]
A.II.2 of sacrifices, auspicious, σφάγια [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 379; οἰωνοί 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 1333; ἱερά 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.92; τὸ τέλος κ. τῆς ἐξόδου 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.2.9; κ. τὰ ἱερὰ ἦν αὐτῷ [prev. author] “Cyr.” 3.2.3)]: with infinitive, ἰέναι.. κ. ἡμῖν τὰ ἱερὰ ἦν [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “An.” 2.2.3: Comedy texts, τὰ τῆς πυγῆς κ. (for τοῦ θεοῦ) 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 868.)]
A.III in a moral sense, beautiful, noble, honourable, in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)] only in neuter, οὐ καλὸν ἔειπες [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.166, compare 17.381; μεῖζον κλέος.. καὶ κάλλιον 18.255)]; frequently καλόν [ἐστι] with infinitive, κ. τοι σὺν ἐμοὶ τὸν κήδειν ὅς κ᾽ ἐμὲ κήδῃ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.615)]; οὐ γὰρ ἔμοιγε κ. (i.e. ἄρχειν)[Refs 8th c.BC+ (21.440; οὐ κ. ἀτέμβειν οὐδὲ δίκαιον 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.294)]; so in Trag., καλόν μοι τοῦτο ποιούσῃ θανεῖν [LXX+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 72, etc.; μάθετε καλὸν ποιεῖν LXX.Isa.1.17)]: comparative, οὐ μέν τοι τόδε κάλλιον οὐδὲ ἔοικε [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 7.159, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.52; after 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus frequently of actions, etc., κάλων κἄσλων 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica “Papyrus fragments” in E. Diehl, 2.4 (unless of persons here))]; κ. ἔργματα noble deeds, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 4(3).42, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 839, etc.)]; ἀναστροφὴ κ. [NT (NT.1Pet.2.12)]: in plural, excellences, πλῆθος καλῶν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 13.45; πολλῶν καλῶν δεῖ τῷ καλόν τι μωμένῳ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 938)]; τὰ τοῦ παιδὸς κ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 8.17.)]
A.III.2 τὸ κ. moral beauty, virtue, honour, opposed to τὸ αἰσχρόν, [Refs 6th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Mem.” 1.1.16, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 183d, etc.; ὅττι καλόν, φίλον ἐστί, τὸ δ᾽ οὐ καλὸν οὐ φίλον ἐστίν 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 17, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 881 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Lysis” 216c; οὐ ταὐτὸν ἡγῇ σύ, ὡς ἔοικας, κ. τε καὶ ἀγαθὸν καὶ κακὸν καὶ αἰσχρόν [prev. author] “Grg.” 474d, compare “Smp.” 201e)]; τοὐμὸν κ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 300.)]
A.III.3 of persons, in early writers coupled with ἀγαθός, see at {καλοκἀγαθός}; later κ. ποιμήν [NT (NT.John.10.11)]; κ. στρατιώτης [NT (NT.2Tim.2.3.)]
A.IV in Attic dialect and Trag. frequently ironically, fine, specious, γέρας κ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 209; κ. γὰρ οὑμὸς βίοτος ὥστε θαυμάσαι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 393, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 652; κ. Χάρις 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 9.65; κ. ὕβριν ὑβρισμένοι [prev. author] 23.121; καί σοι.. θωπεῦσαι καλόν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1003; μετ᾽ ὀνομάτων καλῶν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.89.)]
B Degrees of comparative: comparative καλλίων, ον, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.52, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.396, etc.: _neuter_ κάλιον [ᾰ] 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 134)]: superlative κάλλιστος, η, ον, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.233, etc.)]; late καλλιώτερος or -ότερος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“POxy.” 1672.6 (1st c.AD), Scholia 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 966; also καλώτερος 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus “Epim.” 69.)]
C adverb:—Poets frequently use neuter καλόν as adverb, κ. ἀείδειν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.570, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.155; καλά 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.326)]; later τὸ κ. [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 3.3, 18, 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Epigrammata” 53, 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 1.54.)]
C.II regular adverb καλῶς (Doric dialect καλώς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophron Comicus 22))], well, rightly, οὐδ᾽ ἔτι κ. οἶκος ἐμὸς διόλωλε [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.64)]; κ. ζῆν, τεθνηκέναι, etc., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 479, etc.)]; κ. φρονεῖν to be in one's right mind, [Refs ([prev. author] “fragment” 836; οὐ κ. ταρβεῖς [prev. author] “Tr.” 457)]; κ. ἀγωνιεῖσθαι fairly, on the merits of the case, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 13.88)]; Χρήματα δατῆθθαι κ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“Leg.Gort.” 4.39; κ. εἰρημένα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 576.6; κάλλιον λέγεις 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 161b; κάλλιστ᾽ ἂν εἴποι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1172: frequently in phrase καλῶς καὶ εὖ, καλῶς τε καὶ εὖ, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 319e, “Prm.” 128b, etc.)]
C.II.2 of good fortune, well, happily, κ. πράσσειν, ={εὖ π}., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 979, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 271; κ. καὶ εὖ πράττειν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Charmides” 172a)]; κ. ἔχειν to be well, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 799, etc.; κ. ἔχει σοι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 946, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 816)]; κ. ἔχει with infinitive, 'tis well to.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 3.11.1: with _genitive_, κ. ἔχειν τινός)] to be well off in respect to a thing, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἐπικυήσιος” 29; κ. παράπλου κεῖσθαι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.36; εἰ κ. σφίσιν ἔχοι [prev. author] 4.117; οὔτε τοῖς θεοῖς ἔφη κ. ἔχειν, εἰ.. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.3.3; καλλιόνως ἔχει 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 169e, etc.; κάλλιστα ἕζει [prev. author] “Hp.Ma.” 295b.)]
C.II.3 καλῶς, ={πάνυ}, thoroughly, altogether, τὸν κ. εὐδαίμονα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 317, = 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 934; κ. ἔξοιδα [prev. author] “OC” 269, compare “OT” 1008; κ. ὑπὸ τοῦ πυρὸς διεφθάρθαι 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 13.108)]: comparative, κάλλιον εἰδέναι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Hp.Ma.” 300d)]; κάλλιον ἐοικέναι to be just like, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Genit.” 8.)]
C.II.4 κ. ἀκούειν to be well spoken of, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Μονόστιχοι - Fragmenta Comicorum Graecorum” 285, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.177e.)]
C.II.5 κ. ποιῶν rightly, deservedly, κ. ποιῶν ἀπόλλυται [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 863, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 1.28, +others, 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.232)]; in requests, κ. ποιήσεις πριάμενος, etc., [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“PPetr.” 3p.143 (3rd c.BC))], etc.; also with infinitive, κ. π. γράψαι [Refs 1st c.BC+ (“BGU” 1203.7 (1st c.BC), etc.)]
C.II.6 in answers, to approve the words of the former speaker, well said! [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1216, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 39.15)]; also, to decline an offer courteously, no, thank you! [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 888; κ. ἔχει 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 165, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Περικειρομένη” 266)]; πάνυ κ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 512; ἀμέλει κ. [prev. work] 532: _superlative_, κάλλιστ᾽, ἐπαινῶ [prev. work] 508; ἔχει κάλλιστα 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 15.3.)]
C.II.7 ironically, finely, καλῶς ἐρήμης γ᾽ ἂν σὺ γῆς ἄρχοις μόνος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 739, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 588, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 344, 4th-3rd c.BC: Dinarchus Orator 1.69.)]
C.II.8 κ. ὁ ἱερεύς hurrah for the priest! [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“SIG” 1109.14 (Athens, 2nd c.AD).)]
C.II.9 repeated with the adjective, καλὴ καλῶς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 253, “Pax” 1330, “Ec.” 730; καλὸς κάλλιστά τε ῥέξαις 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 9.94.)]
C.II.10 comparative καλλιόνως [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Tht.” [same place], “Lg.” 660d)]: superlative καλλίστως [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“PMag.Par.” 1.2443,2465, Scholia 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 310.)]
D for compounds, see at {καλλι-, καλο-}.
E Quantity: ᾱ in Epic dialect and early [Refs 8th c.BC+ (4th c.AD: Iamblichus Philosophus Poets (except “hymnus ad Venerem” 29, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 63, “Th.” 585))]: ᾰ in Lyric poetry (except κᾱλῶς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 12.206) and Trag. (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 314, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1381 are corrupt).--In Eleg., epigram, and Bucol. Poets ᾰ or ᾱ (the latter usually in thesi))]; τὰ μὴ κᾰλὰ κᾱλὰ πέφανται [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 6.19, compare 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 7.115, 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Jovem” 55)].--In comparative, ῐ in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, ῑ in Trag. and later.)]