A.renowned, glorious, in Ep., etc., freq.as epith. of gods and heroes, “κ. ἐννοσίγαιος” Il.9.362; “Ἀμφιγυήεις” Hes.Op. 70; “Ἑρμᾶς” Pi.P.9.59; “Ἀθάνα” B.16.7; Νηρέος κόραι ib.101; “Ἀχιλλεύς” Il.20.320; “Ὀδυσεύς” Od.24.409; also “κλυτὰ φῦλ᾽ ἀνθρώπων” Il.14.361; “κ. ἔθνεα νεκρῶν” Od.10.526; ὄνομα κ. a glorious name, 9.364 (expld. by Sch. as the name by which one is called); of cities, etc., “Ἄργος” Il.24.437; “Ἰταλία” S.Ant.1118; “πόλις” E.IA263.
2. of things, noble, splendid, “ἄλσος” Od.6.321; “δώματα” Il.2.854, etc.; “λιμήν” Od.10.87, 15.472; “αἰθήρ” B.16.73; “ἀγγελίαν” Pi.O.14.21; “ἐπικωμίαν ὄπα” Id.P.10.6; of animals, “κ. μῆλα” Od.9.308; “κλυτοῖς αἰπολίοις” S.Aj. 375; κ. ὄρνις, = ἀλεκτρυών, Hsch., cj. in Nic.Fr.68.2: freq. of the works of human skill, “κλυτὰ ἔργα” Od.20.72; “εἵματα” 6.58; “τεύχεα” Il. 5.435; δαίς, ἀοιδαί, φόρμιγξ, Pi.O.8.52 codd., N.7.16, I.2.2; “ἔναρα” S. Aj.177; “χρήματα” Crates Theb.10.6.—Used by Trag. only in lyr.
