1. τελέεις · teleeis — LSJ
The corpus record
τελήεις
teleeis
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Where it lives
- Alcibiades 2 2 · 4.69/10k
- Theogony 2 · 2.9/10k
- Odyssey 5 · 0.58/10k
- Iliad 2 · 0.18/10k
- Histories 1 · 0.05/10k
What it meant
2. τελήεις · telēeis — LSJ
perfect, complete, of full tale, number, of full-grown beasts, of beasts without blemish, of sure augury, sure
= τέλειος, perfect, complete, of victims, in Il. and Od. always τεληέσσας ἑκατόμβας, i.e. hecatombs of full tale or number, or of full-grown beasts, or of beasts without blemish, Il. 1.315, 2.306, Od. 4.352, 17.50, al.; τελήεντες οἰωνοί birds of sure augury, as if they brought about what they betokened, opp. μαψιλόγοι, h.Merc. 544 (as perhaps τελειότατος πετεηνῶν, cf. τέλειος 1.1a): in this sense Tyrt. 4.2 has τελέεντʼ ἔπεα sure predictions, from the form τελέεις.
II in which all others end, ending in itself, ever-circling
Ὠκεανοῖο τελήεντος ποταμοῖο prob. the river in which all others end, or ending in itself, ever-circling, Hes. Th. 242, 959.
In the wild
- τεληέσσας · telēessas Herodotus, Histories 2.116.5 (DIORISIS sentence 2350)
- τελήεντος · telēentos Theogony 240–262
- τελήεντος · telēentos Theogony 958–960
- τεληέσσας · telēessas Iliad 1.315
- τεληέσσας · telēessas Iliad 2.306
- τεληέσσας · telēessas Odyssey 13.350
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Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.