τέλλω
tellō

Greek verb

Last edited: 2024-06-10
Primary meaning to rise
Literal translation to rise
Variants
τέλλω tellō
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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.


See also

ἀνατέλλω anatellōto rise

ἐπιτέλλω epitellōto rise heliacally

ἐπανατέλλω epanatellōto rise later

ἀνορούω anorouōto rise

παρανατέλλω paranatellōto rise besides

συνανατέλλω sunanatellōto rise simultaneously

προανατέλλω proanatellōto rise earlier

ḫꜥappearance

orior to rise

ὑπερτέλλω hupertellōto rise completely

exorior to rise

consurgo to rise

ascendo to rise

זָרַח zāraḥto rise

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: December 1, 2025).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac349,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Peeters, Thomas},
	year = {2024},
	title = {τέλλω ({Lemma} #349)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/349/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/349/},
}