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κλείς, ἡ,
genitive κλειδός; Attic dialectaccusative κλεῖν, see.below 1.3, 111, later κλεῖδα [[ “Anthologia Graeca” 6.306 (from Aristo), 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Artoxerxes” 9: _plural_ κλεῖδες, κλεῖδας, _contraction_ κλεῖς, see below 111, _dative_ κλεισίν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Axiochus” 371b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—Ionic dialect κληΐς [ῑ], κληῗδος, κληῗδα, etc. [[(8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus uses only the _Ionic dialect_ form)] Refs 8th c.BC+]:—Doric dialect κλᾱΐς, κλαΐδος [ῐ] [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 23, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 9.39; but _accusative_ _plural_ κλᾱῗδας [prev. work] 8.4 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; accusative κλαῖδα or κλᾷδα [[ 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Cererem” 45 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; compare κλᾴξ:—Aeolic dialect κλᾶϊς (κλαῖς codex)· μοχλός, [[ 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus ] Refs 5th c.AD+]; κλάϊς accusative κλάϊν [[ “Etymologicum Gudianum” cited in Schaefer “Greg.Cor.” p.584: _plural_ κλᾷδες κλᾶδες codex)· ζυγά, 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus ] Refs 5th c.AD+]:—old Attic dialect κλῄς, κλῇδος, accusative κλῇδα [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 212 (_anapaest meter_), 661 (Lyric poetry): κλείς and κλῄς] Refs 5th c.BC+] in the same Attic dialect Inscription, [[ “IG” 22.1414.44] Refs] and 47. (κλᾱϝῑς, cf. Latin clavis, claudo.)
__1 bar, bolt, θύρας σταθμοῖσιν ἐπῆρσε (i.e. Hera, from within) κληῗδι κρυπτῇ [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.168, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 21.241; κληῗδος ἱμάς [prev. work] 4.802, compare 838; ἐπὶ δὲ κληῗδ᾽ ἐτάνυσσεν ἱμάντι 1.442 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ={ἐπιβλής}, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.455. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__2 catch or hook, passed through the door from the outside to catch the strap (ἱμάς) attached to the bar (ὀχεύς), ἐν δὲ κληῗδ᾽ ἧκε, θυρέων δ᾽ ἀνέκοπτεν ὀχῆας ἄντα τιτυσκομένη [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 21.47, compare 50; οἴξασα κληῗδι θύρας 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.89; δοιοὶ δ᾽ ἔντοσθεν ὀχῆες εἶχον ἐπημοιβοί, μία δὲ κληῒς ἐπαρήρει 12.456, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Parmenides Poeta Philosophus 1.14. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__3 later, key, τὴν κλεῖν ἐφέλκεται [[ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 1.13 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κλεῖν παρακλείδιον a false key, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 77: _plural_, κλῇδας οἶδα δώματος 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 827, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 448; Λακωνικὴ κ. 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 343; κυριεύσοντα τῶν κ. “OGI” 229.56 (Smyrna, 3rd c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of a sacred key carried in processions, [[ “SIG” 900.14 (Panamara, 4th c.AD), 996.24 (Smyrna, perhaps 1st c.AD). ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__4 metaphorically, Ἁσυχία βουλᾶν τε καὶ πολέμων ἔχοισα κλαῗδας [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 8.4, compare 9.39 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἔστι κἀμοὶ κλῂς ἐπὶ γλώσσῃ, of silence, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 316, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1052 (Lyric poetry); καθαρὰν ἀνοῖξαι κλῇδα φρενῶν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 661 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κλῇδας γάμου φυλάττει, of Hera, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 976 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of the key to a problem, [[ 2nd c.AD: Vettius Valens Astrologus 179.4. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II hook or tongue of a clasp, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.294. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__II.2 stop-cock, [[ 2nd-1st c.BC(?): Hero Mechanicus “(Spiritalia) Pneumatica” 1.25. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__III collar-bone, probably so called from its hook shape (see.[[ above 1.2), 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus (only in 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad”), ὅθι κληῒς ἀποέργει αὐχένα τε στῆθός τε 8.325; κληῗδα παρ᾽ ὦμον πλῆξ᾽, ἀπὸ δ᾽ αὐχένος ὦμον ἐέργαθεν ἠδ᾽ ἀπὸ νώτου 5.146; ᾗ κληῗδες ἀπ᾽ ὤμων αὐχέν᾽ ἔχουσι 22.324, compare 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Aër.” 7, “Art.” 13; πᾳῖσον ἐμᾶς ὑπὸ κλῇδος 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1035; τὴν κλεῖν συνετρίβην 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.61; τὴν κλεῖν κατεαγώς 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.67: _plural_, 4th c.BC: Diogenes Cynicus Philosophus Apoll.6, etc.; τὰ πλάγια καὶ τὰς κλεῖδας 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 513b35; αἱ κλεῖδες (variant{κλεῖς}) καὶ αἱ πλευραί, of the crocodile, [prev. work] 516a28 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; κλεῖδες ὀπταί roast shoulder-bones of the tunny (with play on [[ 1.3, ] Refs]visible keys, opposed to κρυπταὶ κλεῖδες of the Laconians), [[ 4th c.BC: Aristopho Comicus 7.2, compare 3rd c.BC: Diphilus Siphnius Rerum Naturalium Scriptor cited in 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 8.357a. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__IV rowing bench in a ship, frequently in [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey”, ] Refs 8th c.BC+] always in plural; ἐπὶ κληῗσι καθίζειν [[ 2.419, etc.; κληΐδεσσιν ἐφήμενοι 12.215; once in 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad”, πεντήκοντ᾽ ἔσαν ἄνδρες ἐπὶ κληῗσιν 16.170; δησάμενοι.. ἐπὶ κληῗσιν ἐρετμά 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.37. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__V of promontories, straits, etc., Κληῗδες or Κληΐδες τῆς Κύπρου [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.108, compare 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 14.6.3 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πόντου κλῇδ᾽, of the Bosporus, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 212 (Lyric poetry). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__VI in plural, sacred chaplets, [[ [prev. author] “Tr.” 256 (_anapaest meter_) (Ephes., _accusative_ to 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus). ] Refs 5th c.AD+]
__VII in versification, clausula, cadence, [[Scholia 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 1127. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
