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kalos, ê, on, Aeol. kalos (v. infr.), a, on, Boeot. kalWos Schwyzer 538 (vi B. C.):--

  • beautiful, of outward form, freq. of persons, kallistos anêr hupo Ilion êlthen Hom. Il. 2.673: in Hom. usu. in the phrase k. te megas te Hom. Il. 21.108, al.; megas kai k. Hom. Od. 9.513; kalê te megalê te au=Hom. Od. 13.289, au=Hom. Od. 15.418; kalos demas beautiful of form, au=Hom. Od. 17.307; k. ideai Pind. O. 10 (au=Pind. O. 11).au=Pind. O. 103; eidos kallistos Xen. Cyrop. 1.2.1; k. to sôma IDEM=Xen. Mem. 2.6.30; tas opseis Theopomp.Hist.195; Chorôi kalê beauteous in the dance, Hom. Il. 16.180: c. inf., kalliones kai meizones eisoraasthai Hom. Od. 10.396; esoran k. Pind. O. 8.19: freq. of parts of the body, fair, shapely, k. prosôpa, hommata, parêïa, sphura, Hom. Il. 19.285, au=Hom. Il. 23.66, Hom. Od. 19.208, Hom. Il. 4.147; Chrôs au=Hom. Il. 5.354, al.; of clothes, heimata, pharea, Chitôn, Chlaina, pedila, Hom. Od. 6.111, au=Hom. Od. 24.277, Hom. Il. 2.43, Hom. Od. 10.365, au=Hom. Od. 1.96; peplos kallistos poikilmasin êde megistos Hom. Il. 6.294; of arms and armour, knêmides, aspis, sakos, korus, phasgana, entea, au=Hom. Il. 3.331, au=Hom. Il. 11.33, au=Hom. Il. 22.314, au=Hom. Il. 18.612, au=Hom. Il. 15.713, Hom. Od. 19.18; of buildings, manufactured articles, etc., aulê k. te megalê te au=Hom. Od. 14.7; k. dômata, teichos, polies, au=Hom. Od. 3.387, Hom. Il. 21.447, au=Hom. Il. 18.491; amaxa, trapeza, thronos, au=Hom. Il. 24.267, au=Hom. Il. 11.629, Hom. Od. 1.131; also temenos, agros, Hom. Il. 12.314, Hom. Od. 24.206; so after Hom., Ludion k. ergon Sapph.19, etc.; eersa k. ead.ti=Sapph. Supp.25.12.

    2. in Att. added to a name in token of love or admiration, as Arisêmos k. IG12.921, etc.; en toisi toichois egraph' "Athênaioi kaloi"     Aristoph. Ach. 144, cf.ti=Aristoph. Wasps 98; Alkibiadês ho kalos, Sapphô hê kalê, Plat. Alc. 1.113b, ti=Plat. Phaedrus 235c.

    3. to kalon beauty, Sapph.79,     Eur. IA 21 (anap.), etc.; ta kala the proprieties or elegancies of life, Hdt. 1.8, au=Hdt. 1.207=lr; hapantôn kalôn ammoros Pind. O. 1.84; hai technai has pêgas phasi tôn k. einai Xen. Cyrop. 7.2.13.

    II. with ref. to use, good, of fine quality, k. limên     Hom. Od. 6.263; Boreêi anemôi . . kalôi fair, au=Hom. Od. 14.253, au=Hom. Od. 14.299=lr; k. argurion, opp. kibdêlon, genuine silver, Xen. Mem. 3.1.9; opp. apotetrimmenon, good silver currency, PCair.Zen.21.33 (iii B. C.); elaiai PHib. 1.49.12 (iii B. C.); gê Ev.Luc.8.15; k. oinos PFay.133.8 (iv A. D.); stratopedon kalliston Thuc. 5.60; antapedôkate ponêra anti kalôn LXX Ge. 44.4; k. es stratian Xen. Cyrop. 3.3.6; pros ti Plat. Hipp. Maj. 295c, ti=Plat. Gorg. 474d, etc.: c. inf., lophos kallistos trechein Xen. Anab. 4.8.26; en kalôi [topôi] in a good place, kathizesthai, hormein, Aristoph. Thes. 292, Xen. Hell. 2.1.25; en kalôi men tou kolpou kai tôn poleôn, en k. de tou tên Chôran blaptein, IBID=au=Xen. Hell. 6.2.9; en kalôi under favourable circumstances, Thuc. 5.59.60; en k. (sc. Chronôi) in good time, in season, Eur. IA 1106; en ou k. IDEM=Eur. Orest. 579; en kalôi [esti] c. inf., Soph. El. 384 (so kalon esti c. inf., IDEM=Soph. Phil. 1155 (lyr.), Aristoph. Peace 278, Thuc. 8.2); es kalon Soph. OT 78, Plat. Meno 89e, ti=Plat. Sym. 174e; ti gar emoi zên kalon; what is the good of life to me? Ph.2.594; kalêi pistei, = Lat.bona fide, PTeb.418.14 (iii A. D.).

    III. in a moral sense, beautiful, noble, honourable, in Hom. only in neut., ou kalon eeipes     Hom. Od. 8.166, cf. au=Hom. Od. 17.381; meizon kleos . . kai kallion au=Hom. Od. 18.255; freq. kalon [esti] c. inf., k. toi sun emoi ton kêdein hos k' eme kêdêi Hom. Il. 9.615; ou gar emoige k. (sc. archein) au=Hom. Il. 21.440; ou k. atembein oude dikaion Hom. Od. 20.294; so in Trag., kalon moi touto poiousêi thanein Soph. Ant. 72, etc.; mathete kalon poiein LXXIs.1.17: Comp., ou men toi tode kallion oude eoike Hom. Od. 7.159, cf. Hom. Il. 24.52; after Hom. freq. of actions, etc., kalôn kaslôn Sapph.Supp.2.4 (unless of persons here); k. ergmata noble deeds, Pind. I. 4.42, cf. S.Fr.839, etc.; anastrophê k. 1 Ep.Pet.2.12: in pl., excellences, plêthos kalôn Pind. O. 13.45; pollôn kalôn dei tôi kalon ti mômenôi S.Fr.938; ta tou paidos k. Xen. Sym. 8.17.

    IV. in Att. and Trag. freq. ironically, fine, specious, geras k.     Aesch. Eum. 209; k. gar houmos biotos hôste thaumasai Soph. El. 393, cf. Eur. Ba. 652; k. Charis Dem. 9.65; k. hubrin hubrismenoi IDEM=Dem. 23.121; kai soi . . thôpeusai kalon Soph. OC 1003; met' onomatôn kalôn Thuc. 5.89.

    B. Degrees of Comp.: Comp. kalliôn, on,     Hom. Il. 24.52, Hom. Od. 10.396, etc.: neut. kalion [a^] Alc.134: Sup. kallistos, ê, on, Hom. Il. 20.233, etc.; late kalliôteros or -oteros, POxy.1672.6 (i A. D.), Sch.Eur. Tro. 966; also kalôteros Hdn.Epim.69.

    C. Adv.:--

  • Poets freq. use neut. kalon as Adv., k. aeidein Hom. Il. 18.570, Hom. Od. 1.155; kala Hom. Il. 6.326; later to k. Theoc.3.3, au=Theoc. 3.18=lr, Call.Epigr.53, Herod.1.54.

    D. for compds., v. kalli-, kalo-.

    E. Quantity: a_ in Ep. and early Iamb. Poets (exc.     HH 5.29, Hes. WD 63, ti=Hes. Th. 585): a^ in Lyr. (exc. ka_lôs Bacchyl. 12.206) and Trag. (A. Fr.314, Soph. Phil. 1381 are corrupt).--In Eleg., Epigr., and Bucol. Poets a^ or a_ (the latter usu. in thesi); ta mê ka^la ka_la pephantai Theoc.6.19, cf. Herod.7.115, Call.Jov.55.--In Comp., i^ in Hom., i_ in Trag. and later.