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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From κάλλος (kállos, “beauty”) + -κλῆς (-klês).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kal.li.klɛ̂ːs/ → /kal.liˈklis/ → /ka.liˈklis/
Noun
Κᾰλλῐκλῆς • (Kalliklês) m (genitive Κᾰλλῐκλέους); third declension
- a male given name, Kallicles
380 BCE,
Plato,
Gorgias 447a:
- τούτων μέντοι, ὦ Καλλίκλεις, αἴτιος Χαιρεφῶν ὅδε, ἐν ἀγορᾷ ἀναγκάσας ἡμᾶς διατρῖψαι.
- toútōn méntoi, ô Kallíkleis, aítios Khairephôn hóde, en agorâi anankásas hēmâs diatrîpsai.
- For this, Kallicles, this Chaerephon is responsible, since he forced us to waste time in the marketplace.
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