τέλλω

tellō
Greek · verb
Edited by: Thomas Peeters
Last edited: 2024-06-10

Meanings
Literal translation
to rise
Categories
astronomical event
Related Lemmata 19

1. to rise

1.a to rise astronomical event

used as a shortened form of ἀνατέλλω

Κεῖνος γὰρ ἄλλης ἡμέρας, ὅθ᾽ ἱππικῶν ἦν ἡλίου τέλλοντος ὠκύπους ἀγών, εἰσῆλθε πολλῶν ἁρματηλατῶν μέτα.

‘For on another day, when there was the swift-footed horse contest as the sun was rising, he entered it together with many charioteers.’

— Sophocles, Electra 698-700

Genre: tragedy Date: 5th century BCE

Sophocles. 1913. Sophocles. Vol. 2: Ajax, Electra, Trachiniae, Philoctetes, with an English translation by F. Storr. In: The Loeb Classical Library 21, ed. F. Storr. London: William Heinemann & New York: The Macmillan Company.


Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Peeters, T. (2024). τέλλω (Lemma #349). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/349/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Peeters, T. (2024). τέλλω (Lemma #349). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/349/

MLA (9th)
Peeters, T. (2024). τέλλω (Lemma #349). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/349/

Harvard
Peeters, T. (2024) τέλλω (Lemma #349), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/349/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac349,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Peeters, Thomas},
	year = {2024},
	title = {τέλλω ({Lemma} #349)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/349/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/349/},
}