κληδών, όνος, ἡ,
Epic dialect κλεηδών and κληηδών, (κλέω A) omen, presage contained in a chance utterance, χαῖρεν δὲ κλεηδόνι δῖος Ὀδυσσεύς [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.117, 20.120 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὁ μὲν τῇ κ. οὐδὲν χρεώμενος (above φήμη) [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.72; κληδόνας τε δυσκρίτους ἐγνώρισ᾽ αὐτοῖς 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 486, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1110, 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Epigrammata” 1.14 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: in later Prose, κληδόνων ἀκούσονται [[ LXX.Deu.18.14 (variant -ονισμῶν),cf. Polystr. p.5 W.; μαντικὴ ἀπὸ κληδόνων 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 9.11.7, compare “PMag.Oxy.” 886.22 (3rd c.AD)] LXX+2nd c.AD+]; δέχομαι τὴν κ. [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Laps.” 8: personified, in _plural_, 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta ] Refs 2nd c.AD+] [same place]; Φήμη καὶ Κ., = Latin Aius Locutius, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Camillus” 30. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__II tidings, κληηδὼν πατρός news of my father, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.317 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: absolutely, report, rumour, ἐξ ἀμαυρᾶς κ. [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 853, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.101; κληδόνες παλίγκοτοι 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 863 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κ. ἐν ἁπάσῃ τῇ πόλει κατεῖχεν, ὅτι.. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.130. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 fame, repute, κ. ἀϋτεῖ [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 927 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; glory, παῖδες γὰρ ἀνδρὶ κ. σωτήριοι [[ [prev. author] “Ch.” 505 ] Refs]; κληδὼν καλή good report, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 258; κ. αἰσχρά 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 315. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]