Strong G5055τελέω
to finish
- Transliteration
- teleō
- Pronunciation
- tel-eh'-o
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
From G5056; to end that is complete 6
execute conclude 6
discharge (a debt): - accomplish make an end expire fill up finish go over pay perform.
execute conclude 6
discharge (a debt): - accomplish make an end expire fill up finish go over pay perform.
Detailed definition
τελέω, -ῶ
(τέλος), [in LXX for כָּלָה, pi., etc.;]
1. to bring to an end, complete, finish: τ. δρόμον, 2Ti.4:7; τ. λόγους, Mat.7:28 19:1 26:1; τ. παραβολάς, Mat.13:53; τ. πόλεις, Mat.10:23; pass., Rev.15:8 20:3, 5 20:7; with ptcp., Mat.11:1.
2. to execute, perform, complete, fulfil: Luk.2:39, Act.13:29, Rom.2:27, 2Co.12:9, Gal.5:16, Jas.2:8, Rev.11:7; pass., Luk.12:50 18:31 22:37, Jhn.19:28, 30, Rev.10:7 15:1 17:17.
3. to pay (frequently in cl.): Mat.17:24, Rom.13:6
(cf. ἀπο-, δια-, ἐκ-, ἐπι-, συν-τελέω).†
(AS)
(τέλος), [in LXX for כָּלָה, pi., etc.;]
1. to bring to an end, complete, finish: τ. δρόμον, 2Ti.4:7; τ. λόγους, Mat.7:28 19:1 26:1; τ. παραβολάς, Mat.13:53; τ. πόλεις, Mat.10:23; pass., Rev.15:8 20:3, 5 20:7; with ptcp., Mat.11:1.
2. to execute, perform, complete, fulfil: Luk.2:39, Act.13:29, Rom.2:27, 2Co.12:9, Gal.5:16, Jas.2:8, Rev.11:7; pass., Luk.12:50 18:31 22:37, Jhn.19:28, 30, Rev.10:7 15:1 17:17.
3. to pay (frequently in cl.): Mat.17:24, Rom.13:6
(cf. ἀπο-, δια-, ἐκ-, ἐπι-, συν-τελέω).†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G5055 appears in 26 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- finish8
- fulfil7
- accomplish4
- pay2
- ye2
- doth1
- end1
- expire1
- fill1
- go1
- perform1
First verses
- Matthew 10:23But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.
- Matthew 11:1And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and to preach in their cities.
- Matthew 13:53And it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these parables, he departed thence.
- Matthew 17:24And when they were come to Capernaum, they that received tribute money came to Peter, and said, Doth not your master pay tribute?
- Matthew 19:1And it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these sayings, he departed from Galilee, and came into the coasts of Judea beyond Jordan;
- Matthew 26:1And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said unto his disciples,
- Luke 2:39And when they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth.
- Luke 12:50But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!
- Luke 18:31Then he took unto him the twelve, and said unto them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of man shall be accomplished.
- Luke 22:37For I say unto you, that this that is written must yet be accomplished in me, And he was reckoned among the transgressors: for the things concerning me have an end.
- John 19:28After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst.
- John 19:30When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
- Acts 13:29And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.
- Romans 2:27And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?
- Romans 13:6For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God’s ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.
- Galatians 5:16This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
- 2 Timothy 4:7I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
- James 2:8If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
- Revelation 10:7But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.
- Revelation 11:7And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.
Occurrences by book
Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
τελέω,
Epic dialect also τελείω, both in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)] (τελέοντες [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.262, compare 4.776, +others, τελείει 6.234, 23.161))]: Epic dialect imperfect τέλεον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.373, 768; ἐτέλειον 9.456, 15.593)]; Ionic dialect τέλεσκον [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Dianam” 123, “fragment” 434; τελέεσκον 4th c.AD(?): Quintus Smyrnaeus Epicus 8.213)]: future τελέσω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 4.43, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.6.3, (δια-) 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 425e codices, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.66 codices (-τελῶ Cobet in both places), “PAvrom.” 2 A 9 (1st c.BC))]; Epic dialect also τελέω, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.415, 12.59, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.256, etc.)]; Attic dialect τελῶ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1435, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 173, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 311b)]: aorist (ἐ) τέλεσα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.390)]; Epic dialect τέλεσσα and ἐτέλεσσα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 246, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.222, 23.543, 559, +others)] (infinitive τελέσσαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 3.9))]; Attic dialect ἐτέλεσα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.78, etc.)]: perfect τετέλεκα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 20a, (δια-) 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.203)]:—middle, future (see. below): aorist ἐτελεσάμην [Refs ([prev. author] 38.18, etc.)]; perfect τετέλεσμαι [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“Inscription Prien.” 11.34 (3rd c.BC))]:—passive, Epic dialect imperfect ἐτελείετο [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.5)]: future τελεσθήσομαι [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Characteres” 16.12)]; future middle in this sense, τελεῖται [Refs 8th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 929, “Ag.” 68 (_anapaest meter_), etc., τελέεσθαι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.36, τελεῖσθαι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 23.284)]; participle τελεόμενος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.206, τελεύμενος [prev. author] 3.134)]: aorist ἐτελέσθην [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.663, etc.)]; Aeolic dialect infinitive τελέσθην [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica “Papyrus fragments” in E. Diehl, 1.4)]: perfect τετέλεσμαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.74, etc.)]: pluperfect τετέλεστο [Refs (19.242)]: Cretan dialect perfect participle τετελημένος [Refs (“GDI” 4963)]; Ionic dialect 3rd.pers. plural perfect τετέληνται uncertain in [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“SIG” 1024.22 (Myconus, 3rd-2nd c.BC))]: (τέλος):—fulfil, accomplish, execute, perform, frequently in Poets from [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus downwards, less frequently in Prose (except in significations 11 and 111); τελέσαι ἔργον τε ἔπος τε 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.272, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.108, 523, etc.; τ. φιλοτήσια ἔργα 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.246)]; μ᾽ ἔφαντο ἄξειν εἰς Ἰθάκην, οὐδ᾽ ἐτέλεσσαν but did it not,[Refs 8th c.BC+ (13.212; τ. ἀέθλους 3.262; πόνον 23.250; πύματον δρόμον 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.373; ὁδόν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.256, 6th c.BC: Mimnermus Lyricus 11; sometimes without ὁδόν, ἄτερ καμάτοιο τέλεσσαν ἤματι τῷ αὐτῷ καὶ ἀπήνυσαν οἴκαδ᾽ ὀπίσσω 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 7.325; ὁδῷ δὲ τὰ ξυντομώτατα ἐξ Ἀβδήρων ἐς Ἴστρον ἀνὴρ εὔζωνος ἑνδεκαταῖος τελεῖ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.97)]; ταύτῃ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐς Φάρσαλον ἐτέλεσε [Refs ([prev. author] 4.78)]; κίνδυνον τελέσσαι perform a dangerous feat, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 99; ἔργον 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1399; δίδυμα κακά 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 782 (Lyric poetry); προστάγματα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 926a)], compare d:—passive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.206)]; καὶ εἰ τετελεσμένον ἐστί, ={τελεῖσθαι δύναται}, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.90, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.196; τετέλεστο δὲ ἔργον 7.465)]; αὐτίκ᾽ ἔπειθ᾽ ἅμα μῦθος ἔην, τετέλεστο δὲ ἔργον 'no sooner said than done',[Refs 5th c.BC+ (19.242; ἐάνπερ ἐπὶ λόγῳ ἔργα τελῆται 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 389d, compare “Plt.” 288c; γραφὴ τῶν τετελεσμένων ἔργων “PPetr.” 3p.340 (3rd c.BC))]; τετέλεσται [NT (NT.John.19.30 (compare 28).)]
2 fulfil one's word, τ. ἔπος, μῦθον, ὑπόσχεσιν, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.44, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.776, 10.483; τελέω τὰ πάροιθεν ὑπέστην 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.20)]; τελέσαι κότον, χόλον, glut one's fury, wrath, [Refs (1.82, 4.178: also,)]grant one the fulfilment or accomplishment of anything, τ. νόον τινί fulfil his wish,[Refs 8th c.BC+ (23.149, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.51; τ. ἐέλδωρ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 36; λιτάς 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 627 (Lyric poetry); κατάρας [prev. work] 724 (Lyric poetry))]; rarely with infinitive, οὐδ᾽ ἐτέλεσσε φέρων δόμεναι he succeeded not in.., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.222 (compare ἀνύω 1.6))]:—passive, to be fulfilled, [Refs (2.36, 330, +others: especially)]perfect participle, [μῦθος] τετελεσμένος ἐστί [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.388, compare “hymnus ad Venerem” 26; elsewhere in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus only _neuter_, τὸ δὲ καὶ τετελεσμένον ἔσται 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.212, compare 8.286, +others:)] —middle, τελέσασθαι δίκην bring a suit to issue, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 38.18, compare 39.18 (_passive_).)]
3 grant in full, work out, ἀγαθόν τινι, ὅ τι φρεσὶν ᾗσι μενοινᾷ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.34; νόστον 15.112; μόγις δ᾽ ἐτέλεσσε Κρονίων 3.119; τ. λυγρά 18.134; γῆρας ἄρειον 23.286; κακὰ κήδεα τ. τινί 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.8, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.699, 18.389, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 3)]; θεῶν τελεσάντων (i.e. αὐτό) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 10.49; εὖ τελεῖ θεός 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 35.)]
4 ὅρκια τελεῖν make an oath effective, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.69)]: later, execute a legal document, δημόσιος χρηματισμὸς τετελεσμένος δι᾽ ἐπιτηρητῶν ἀγορανομίας Mitteis [Refs 1st c.AD+ (“Chr.” 200.10 (3rd c.AD),compare “POxy.” 290.22 (1st c.AD), etc.)]
5 bring to fulfilment or perfection, ἀρετὰν.. πεπρωμέναν τελέσει [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 4.43)]; τ. τινά bless him with perfect happiness, [Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “I.” 6(5).46 (uncertain); so τετελεσμένον ἐσλόν [prev. author] “N.” 9.6; τελεσθεὶς ὄλβος 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 751 (Lyric poetry))]: also, bring a child to maturity, bring it to the birth, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 100 (Lyric poetry).)]
5.b with an adjective added, ἅπαντας ἡ παίδευσις ἡμέρους τελεῖ makes perfectly gentle, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Μονόστιχοι - Fragmenta Comicorum Graecorum” 41.)]
6 bring to an end, finish, end, ἐξ ἀγαθοῦ γὰρ ἀρξάμενος τελέω τὸν λόγον εἰς ἀγαθόν [Refs (“Lyric poetry Alex. Adesp.” 21.2.)]
7 of Time, ὅτε δὴ τρίτον ἦμαρ.. τέλεσ᾽ Ἠώς [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.390)]; βίον τ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 36, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1114)]; πολλοὺς τρόχους ἡλίου[Refs ([prev. work] 1065; τελευτὴν τοῦ βίου [prev. author] “Tr.” 79)]; also τ. νοῦσον come to the end of it, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 799)]:—passive, περὶ δ᾽ ἤματα μακρὰ τελέσθη [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.470, compare 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 59; τετελεσμένον εἰς ἐνιαυτόν [prev. work] 795)]; ἐν τοῖς ἔτεσι τοῖς δὶς ἑπτὰ τετελ. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 581a14, compare “Metaphorical” 994a26)]; of men, come to one's end, οἴμοι.. δεσπότου τελουμένου [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 875 (assuming variant).)]
8 sometimes intransitive, like the passive, come to an end, be fulfilled, turn out, οὐ γὰρ οἶδ᾽ ὅπῃ τελεῖ[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 1021, compare “Pers.” 225 (troch.), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1417 (Lyric poetry))]: later ={τελέθω}, to be, φύσει τελῶν μνησίκακος [Refs (12th c.AD: Tzetzes, Joannes Grammaticus “Historiarum variarum chiliades” 2.83, +others)]
II pay what one owes, what is due, λιπαρὰς τελέουσι θέμιστας [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.156, 298)] (unless this means 'will administer good laws'); νῆας.. αἵ κεν τελέοιεν ἕκαστα ἄστε᾽ ἐπ᾽ ἀνθρώπων ἱκνεύμεναι bring supplies of everything, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.127)]: generally, pay, present, δῶρα, δωτίνην, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.598, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.352; μισθόν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.457, 5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus 4; ἀργύριον 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Lysis” 208b; ἀργύριον.. μισθόν [prev. author] “Prt.” 311d; δύο δραχμὰς μισθόν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 173: _metaphorically_, τ. ὕμνον 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 1.79, 2.13)]; τ. ψυχὰν Ἀΐδᾳ, i.e. die, [Refs ([prev. author] “I.” 1.68.)]
II.b especially pay tax, duty, toll, φόρον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus Alcaeus1.123a; τὰ τέλη 4th c.BC: Cratinus Junior Comicus 9.5, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 55.3, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 847b)]; τ. μετοίκιον pay the tax of a μέτοικος,[Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 850b; ἱππάδα 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 7.39; θητικόν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 7.4, Legal cited in 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 43.54; ξενικά 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 57.34; συντάξεις 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.91; frequently in Papyri, οἱ τελοῦντες τὰ καθήκοντα εἰς τὸ βασιλικόν “PTeb.” 5.174 (2nd c.BC), etc.)]; τ. σῖτον pay one's contribution of corn, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.3.21)]: absolutely, pay tax, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (Inscriptiones Graecae 12.1.2,3, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.109)]:—passive, of money, etc., to be paid, [Refs ([prev. author] 9.93)]; of persons, to be in receipt of rent, χώραν ἀτέλεστον ἔχουσιν αὐτοὶ τετελεσμένοι [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator “Prooemia” 55.)]
II.2 lay out, spend, χρήματα μεγάλα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.137, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 20a, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.1.13)]:—passive, to be spent or expended, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.125)]; ἐς τὸ δεῖπνον τετρακόσια τάλαντα τετελεσμένα laid out upon the dinner, [Refs ([prev. author] 7.118)]; ἕνδεκα μυριάδας μεδίμνων τελεομένας ἐπ᾽ ἡμέρῃ ἑκάστῃ[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 187, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 955e.)]
II.2.b consume, eat [Refs 5th c.BC+ (compare (ἀναλίσκω 1.3), [σιτία] μέτρια τελεύμενα 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ παθῶν” 47, compare 26, 43, 44.)]
II.3 since, in many Greek cities, the citizens were distributed into classes accusative to their taxable property, τ. εἴς τινας meant to belong to a class, to be reckoned among, τ. ἐς Ἕλληνας, ἐς Βοιωτούς, belong to the Greeks, the Boeotians, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.51, 6.108)]; εἰς ἀστοὺς τ. become a citizen, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 222)]; εἰς ἄνδρας τ. come to man's estate, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 923e)]; εἰς γυναῖκας ἐξ ἀνδρὸς τ. become a woman instead of a man, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 822)]; ἕκαστος ἡμῶν ὑπό τινα τελεῖ δαίμονα ὃς πάσης ἡμῶν τῆς ζωῆς ἐπάρχει belongs.. , [Refs 4th c.BC+ (5th c.AD: Hermias Alexandrinus Philosophus “in Platonis Phaedrum scholia” p.93 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus)]
II.4 from the last sense perhaps may be explained the phrase, κοῖός τις δοκέοι ἀνὴρ εἶναι πρὸς τὸν πατέρα τελέσαι to compare with his father, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.34 (τελέσαι omitting codex E, secl. Hude).)]
III initiate in the mysteries, τινα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthydemus” 277d; τῇ μητρὶ τελούσῃ τὰς βίβλους ἀναγιγνώσκειν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.259)]; τυμπανίζειν καὶ τ. [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.60a; τ. τῷ Διονύσῳ “Milet.” 6.23)]:—passive, to have oneself initiated, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 258; τετελεσμένος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 69c, “Berl.Sitzb.” 1927.169 (from Cyrene), etc.)]; ἐτέλεις, ἐγὼ δ᾽ ἐτελούμην [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.265)]; Διονύσῳ τελεσθῆναι to be consecrated to Dionysus, initiated in his mysteries, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.79; ὀργίοισι 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “νόμος” 5, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 1.10: with _accusative_, Βακχεῖ᾽ ἐτελέσθη 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 357 (_anapaest meter_); τελέους τελετὰς τελούμενος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 249c, compare 250b; also τ. μεγάλοισι τέλεσι [prev. author] “R.” 560e.)]
III.b in Magic, endow a thing with potency, consecrate it, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“PMag.Par.” 1.1744, “PMag.Lond.” 46.242, 121.590, Scholia 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 884.)]
III.c enchant, Παλλάδιον τετελεσμένον Eust.ad [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Dionysius Periegeta 620.)]
III.2 metaphorically, τελεσθῆναι στρατηγός to be formally appointed general, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 13.19)]; τετελεσμένος σωφροσύνῃ a votary of temperance, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 21.12.)]
III.3 also of sacred rites, perform, ἱερά [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 485, compare “IT” 464 (_anapaest meter_); θυσίαν τοῖς θεοῖς 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 4.34, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Theseus” 16; ὄργια “IG” 14.1183 (from Rome), 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 4.14.1)]; γάμον, γάμους, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Apollinem” 14, 3rd c.BC: Lycophron Tragicus 1387)]:— passive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 775a.)]
III.4 passive, of women, to be married, [Refs (“GDI” 3721.5,9 (from Cos).)]
Epic dialect also τελείω, both in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)] (τελέοντες [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.262, compare 4.776, +others, τελείει 6.234, 23.161))]: Epic dialect imperfect τέλεον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.373, 768; ἐτέλειον 9.456, 15.593)]; Ionic dialect τέλεσκον [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Dianam” 123, “fragment” 434; τελέεσκον 4th c.AD(?): Quintus Smyrnaeus Epicus 8.213)]: future τελέσω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 4.43, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.6.3, (δια-) 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 425e codices, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.66 codices (-τελῶ Cobet in both places), “PAvrom.” 2 A 9 (1st c.BC))]; Epic dialect also τελέω, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.415, 12.59, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.256, etc.)]; Attic dialect τελῶ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1435, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 173, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 311b)]: aorist (ἐ) τέλεσα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.390)]; Epic dialect τέλεσσα and ἐτέλεσσα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 246, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.222, 23.543, 559, +others)] (infinitive τελέσσαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 3.9))]; Attic dialect ἐτέλεσα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.78, etc.)]: perfect τετέλεκα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 20a, (δια-) 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.203)]:—middle, future (see. below): aorist ἐτελεσάμην [Refs ([prev. author] 38.18, etc.)]; perfect τετέλεσμαι [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“Inscription Prien.” 11.34 (3rd c.BC))]:—passive, Epic dialect imperfect ἐτελείετο [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.5)]: future τελεσθήσομαι [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Characteres” 16.12)]; future middle in this sense, τελεῖται [Refs 8th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 929, “Ag.” 68 (_anapaest meter_), etc., τελέεσθαι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.36, τελεῖσθαι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 23.284)]; participle τελεόμενος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.206, τελεύμενος [prev. author] 3.134)]: aorist ἐτελέσθην [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.663, etc.)]; Aeolic dialect infinitive τελέσθην [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica “Papyrus fragments” in E. Diehl, 1.4)]: perfect τετέλεσμαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.74, etc.)]: pluperfect τετέλεστο [Refs (19.242)]: Cretan dialect perfect participle τετελημένος [Refs (“GDI” 4963)]; Ionic dialect 3rd.pers. plural perfect τετέληνται uncertain in [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“SIG” 1024.22 (Myconus, 3rd-2nd c.BC))]: (τέλος):—fulfil, accomplish, execute, perform, frequently in Poets from [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus downwards, less frequently in Prose (except in significations 11 and 111); τελέσαι ἔργον τε ἔπος τε 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.272, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.108, 523, etc.; τ. φιλοτήσια ἔργα 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.246)]; μ᾽ ἔφαντο ἄξειν εἰς Ἰθάκην, οὐδ᾽ ἐτέλεσσαν but did it not,[Refs 8th c.BC+ (13.212; τ. ἀέθλους 3.262; πόνον 23.250; πύματον δρόμον 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.373; ὁδόν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.256, 6th c.BC: Mimnermus Lyricus 11; sometimes without ὁδόν, ἄτερ καμάτοιο τέλεσσαν ἤματι τῷ αὐτῷ καὶ ἀπήνυσαν οἴκαδ᾽ ὀπίσσω 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 7.325; ὁδῷ δὲ τὰ ξυντομώτατα ἐξ Ἀβδήρων ἐς Ἴστρον ἀνὴρ εὔζωνος ἑνδεκαταῖος τελεῖ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.97)]; ταύτῃ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐς Φάρσαλον ἐτέλεσε [Refs ([prev. author] 4.78)]; κίνδυνον τελέσσαι perform a dangerous feat, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 99; ἔργον 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1399; δίδυμα κακά 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 782 (Lyric poetry); προστάγματα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 926a)], compare d:—passive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.206)]; καὶ εἰ τετελεσμένον ἐστί, ={τελεῖσθαι δύναται}, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.90, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.196; τετέλεστο δὲ ἔργον 7.465)]; αὐτίκ᾽ ἔπειθ᾽ ἅμα μῦθος ἔην, τετέλεστο δὲ ἔργον 'no sooner said than done',[Refs 5th c.BC+ (19.242; ἐάνπερ ἐπὶ λόγῳ ἔργα τελῆται 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 389d, compare “Plt.” 288c; γραφὴ τῶν τετελεσμένων ἔργων “PPetr.” 3p.340 (3rd c.BC))]; τετέλεσται [NT (NT.John.19.30 (compare 28).)]
2 fulfil one's word, τ. ἔπος, μῦθον, ὑπόσχεσιν, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.44, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.776, 10.483; τελέω τὰ πάροιθεν ὑπέστην 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.20)]; τελέσαι κότον, χόλον, glut one's fury, wrath, [Refs (1.82, 4.178: also,)]grant one the fulfilment or accomplishment of anything, τ. νόον τινί fulfil his wish,[Refs 8th c.BC+ (23.149, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.51; τ. ἐέλδωρ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 36; λιτάς 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 627 (Lyric poetry); κατάρας [prev. work] 724 (Lyric poetry))]; rarely with infinitive, οὐδ᾽ ἐτέλεσσε φέρων δόμεναι he succeeded not in.., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.222 (compare ἀνύω 1.6))]:—passive, to be fulfilled, [Refs (2.36, 330, +others: especially)]perfect participle, [μῦθος] τετελεσμένος ἐστί [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.388, compare “hymnus ad Venerem” 26; elsewhere in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus only _neuter_, τὸ δὲ καὶ τετελεσμένον ἔσται 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.212, compare 8.286, +others:)] —middle, τελέσασθαι δίκην bring a suit to issue, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 38.18, compare 39.18 (_passive_).)]
3 grant in full, work out, ἀγαθόν τινι, ὅ τι φρεσὶν ᾗσι μενοινᾷ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.34; νόστον 15.112; μόγις δ᾽ ἐτέλεσσε Κρονίων 3.119; τ. λυγρά 18.134; γῆρας ἄρειον 23.286; κακὰ κήδεα τ. τινί 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.8, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.699, 18.389, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 3)]; θεῶν τελεσάντων (i.e. αὐτό) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 10.49; εὖ τελεῖ θεός 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 35.)]
4 ὅρκια τελεῖν make an oath effective, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.69)]: later, execute a legal document, δημόσιος χρηματισμὸς τετελεσμένος δι᾽ ἐπιτηρητῶν ἀγορανομίας Mitteis [Refs 1st c.AD+ (“Chr.” 200.10 (3rd c.AD),compare “POxy.” 290.22 (1st c.AD), etc.)]
5 bring to fulfilment or perfection, ἀρετὰν.. πεπρωμέναν τελέσει [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 4.43)]; τ. τινά bless him with perfect happiness, [Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “I.” 6(5).46 (uncertain); so τετελεσμένον ἐσλόν [prev. author] “N.” 9.6; τελεσθεὶς ὄλβος 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 751 (Lyric poetry))]: also, bring a child to maturity, bring it to the birth, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 100 (Lyric poetry).)]
5.b with an adjective added, ἅπαντας ἡ παίδευσις ἡμέρους τελεῖ makes perfectly gentle, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Μονόστιχοι - Fragmenta Comicorum Graecorum” 41.)]
6 bring to an end, finish, end, ἐξ ἀγαθοῦ γὰρ ἀρξάμενος τελέω τὸν λόγον εἰς ἀγαθόν [Refs (“Lyric poetry Alex. Adesp.” 21.2.)]
7 of Time, ὅτε δὴ τρίτον ἦμαρ.. τέλεσ᾽ Ἠώς [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.390)]; βίον τ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 36, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1114)]; πολλοὺς τρόχους ἡλίου[Refs ([prev. work] 1065; τελευτὴν τοῦ βίου [prev. author] “Tr.” 79)]; also τ. νοῦσον come to the end of it, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 799)]:—passive, περὶ δ᾽ ἤματα μακρὰ τελέσθη [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.470, compare 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 59; τετελεσμένον εἰς ἐνιαυτόν [prev. work] 795)]; ἐν τοῖς ἔτεσι τοῖς δὶς ἑπτὰ τετελ. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 581a14, compare “Metaphorical” 994a26)]; of men, come to one's end, οἴμοι.. δεσπότου τελουμένου [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 875 (assuming variant).)]
8 sometimes intransitive, like the passive, come to an end, be fulfilled, turn out, οὐ γὰρ οἶδ᾽ ὅπῃ τελεῖ[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 1021, compare “Pers.” 225 (troch.), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1417 (Lyric poetry))]: later ={τελέθω}, to be, φύσει τελῶν μνησίκακος [Refs (12th c.AD: Tzetzes, Joannes Grammaticus “Historiarum variarum chiliades” 2.83, +others)]
II pay what one owes, what is due, λιπαρὰς τελέουσι θέμιστας [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.156, 298)] (unless this means 'will administer good laws'); νῆας.. αἵ κεν τελέοιεν ἕκαστα ἄστε᾽ ἐπ᾽ ἀνθρώπων ἱκνεύμεναι bring supplies of everything, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.127)]: generally, pay, present, δῶρα, δωτίνην, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.598, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.352; μισθόν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.457, 5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus 4; ἀργύριον 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Lysis” 208b; ἀργύριον.. μισθόν [prev. author] “Prt.” 311d; δύο δραχμὰς μισθόν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 173: _metaphorically_, τ. ὕμνον 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 1.79, 2.13)]; τ. ψυχὰν Ἀΐδᾳ, i.e. die, [Refs ([prev. author] “I.” 1.68.)]
II.b especially pay tax, duty, toll, φόρον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus Alcaeus1.123a; τὰ τέλη 4th c.BC: Cratinus Junior Comicus 9.5, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 55.3, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 847b)]; τ. μετοίκιον pay the tax of a μέτοικος,[Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 850b; ἱππάδα 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 7.39; θητικόν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 7.4, Legal cited in 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 43.54; ξενικά 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 57.34; συντάξεις 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.91; frequently in Papyri, οἱ τελοῦντες τὰ καθήκοντα εἰς τὸ βασιλικόν “PTeb.” 5.174 (2nd c.BC), etc.)]; τ. σῖτον pay one's contribution of corn, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.3.21)]: absolutely, pay tax, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (Inscriptiones Graecae 12.1.2,3, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.109)]:—passive, of money, etc., to be paid, [Refs ([prev. author] 9.93)]; of persons, to be in receipt of rent, χώραν ἀτέλεστον ἔχουσιν αὐτοὶ τετελεσμένοι [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator “Prooemia” 55.)]
II.2 lay out, spend, χρήματα μεγάλα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.137, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 20a, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.1.13)]:—passive, to be spent or expended, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.125)]; ἐς τὸ δεῖπνον τετρακόσια τάλαντα τετελεσμένα laid out upon the dinner, [Refs ([prev. author] 7.118)]; ἕνδεκα μυριάδας μεδίμνων τελεομένας ἐπ᾽ ἡμέρῃ ἑκάστῃ[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 187, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 955e.)]
II.2.b consume, eat [Refs 5th c.BC+ (compare (ἀναλίσκω 1.3), [σιτία] μέτρια τελεύμενα 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ παθῶν” 47, compare 26, 43, 44.)]
II.3 since, in many Greek cities, the citizens were distributed into classes accusative to their taxable property, τ. εἴς τινας meant to belong to a class, to be reckoned among, τ. ἐς Ἕλληνας, ἐς Βοιωτούς, belong to the Greeks, the Boeotians, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.51, 6.108)]; εἰς ἀστοὺς τ. become a citizen, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 222)]; εἰς ἄνδρας τ. come to man's estate, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 923e)]; εἰς γυναῖκας ἐξ ἀνδρὸς τ. become a woman instead of a man, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 822)]; ἕκαστος ἡμῶν ὑπό τινα τελεῖ δαίμονα ὃς πάσης ἡμῶν τῆς ζωῆς ἐπάρχει belongs.. , [Refs 4th c.BC+ (5th c.AD: Hermias Alexandrinus Philosophus “in Platonis Phaedrum scholia” p.93 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus)]
II.4 from the last sense perhaps may be explained the phrase, κοῖός τις δοκέοι ἀνὴρ εἶναι πρὸς τὸν πατέρα τελέσαι to compare with his father, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.34 (τελέσαι omitting codex E, secl. Hude).)]
III initiate in the mysteries, τινα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthydemus” 277d; τῇ μητρὶ τελούσῃ τὰς βίβλους ἀναγιγνώσκειν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.259)]; τυμπανίζειν καὶ τ. [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.60a; τ. τῷ Διονύσῳ “Milet.” 6.23)]:—passive, to have oneself initiated, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 258; τετελεσμένος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 69c, “Berl.Sitzb.” 1927.169 (from Cyrene), etc.)]; ἐτέλεις, ἐγὼ δ᾽ ἐτελούμην [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.265)]; Διονύσῳ τελεσθῆναι to be consecrated to Dionysus, initiated in his mysteries, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.79; ὀργίοισι 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “νόμος” 5, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 1.10: with _accusative_, Βακχεῖ᾽ ἐτελέσθη 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 357 (_anapaest meter_); τελέους τελετὰς τελούμενος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 249c, compare 250b; also τ. μεγάλοισι τέλεσι [prev. author] “R.” 560e.)]
III.b in Magic, endow a thing with potency, consecrate it, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“PMag.Par.” 1.1744, “PMag.Lond.” 46.242, 121.590, Scholia 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 884.)]
III.c enchant, Παλλάδιον τετελεσμένον Eust.ad [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Dionysius Periegeta 620.)]
III.2 metaphorically, τελεσθῆναι στρατηγός to be formally appointed general, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 13.19)]; τετελεσμένος σωφροσύνῃ a votary of temperance, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 21.12.)]
III.3 also of sacred rites, perform, ἱερά [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 485, compare “IT” 464 (_anapaest meter_); θυσίαν τοῖς θεοῖς 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 4.34, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Theseus” 16; ὄργια “IG” 14.1183 (from Rome), 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 4.14.1)]; γάμον, γάμους, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Apollinem” 14, 3rd c.BC: Lycophron Tragicus 1387)]:— passive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 775a.)]
III.4 passive, of women, to be married, [Refs (“GDI” 3721.5,9 (from Cos).)]