τελέω
1. "to complete, fulfil, accomplish", and, generally, "to execute, perform", Lat. perficere, Hom.: —Pass., id=Hom.; ἅμα μῦθος ἔην, τετέλεστο δὲ ἔργον "no sooner said than done, " Il.
2. "to fulfil" one's word, Hom.: "to grant" one "the fulfilment of" anything, τί τινι id=Hom.; τ. νόον τινί "to fulfil" his wish, Il.; τελέσαι κότον, χόλον "to glut" his fury, wrath, id=Il.: c. inf., οὐδ᾽ ἐτέλεσσε φέρειν "he succeeded" not in bringing, id=Il.; ὅρκια τελεῖν, like ὅρκον τελευτᾶν, "to complete" or "confirm" an oath, id=Il.
3. "to make perfect", ἀρετάν Pind.; τ. τινα "to bless" him "with perfect happiness", id=Pind.; so, τελεσθεὶς ὄλβος Aesch.:—also, "to bring" a child "to maturity, bring" it "to the birth", Eur.
4. "to bring to an end, finish, end", ὁδόν Il., etc.; without ὁδόν, "to finish one's course" to a place, "arrive" at it, Thuc.
5. of Time, Od., etc.:— Pass., ἤματα μακρὰ τελέσθη id=Od.: of men, "to come to one's end", Aesch.
6. intr. like Pass. "to be fulfilled, turn out" so and so, id=Aesch., Soph.
II. "to pay" what one owes, "pay" one's dues, Il.: generally, "to pay, present", Hom., attic: absol. "to pay tax", Hdt.:—Pass., of money, "to be paid", id=Hdt.; of persons, "to be subject to tax" or "tribute", Dem.
2. "to lay out, spend", Hdt.:—Pass. "to be spent" or "expended", id=Hdt.; ἐς τὸ δεῖπνον τετρακόσια τάλαντα τετελεσμένα "laid out" upon the supper, id=Hdt.
3. since, in many Greek cities, the citizens were distributed into classes acc. to their taxable property, τ. εἴς τινας meant "to be rated as belonging to" a class, Lat. censeri inter, τ. ἐς Ἕλληνας, ἐς Βοιωτούς "to belong to" the Greeks, the Boeotians, id=Hdt.; εἰς ἀστοὺς τ. "to become" a citizen, Soph.; εἰς γυναῖκας ἐξ ἀνδρῶν τ. "to become" a woman instead of a man, Eur.: hence, πρὸς τὸν πατέρα τελέσαι "to compare" with his father, Hdt.
III. like τελειόω II, "to make perfect", i. e. "to initiate" in the mysteries, Plat., Dem.:—Pass. "to have oneself initiated", Lat. initiari, Ar., Plat., etc.; Διονύσῳ τελεσθῆναι "to be consecrated" to Dionysus, "initiated in" his "mysteries", Hdt.:—c. acc., τελεσθῆναι Βακχεῖα Ar.
2. metaph., στρατηγὸς τελεσθῆναι "to be formally appointed" general, Dem.; τετελεσμένος σωφροσύνῃ "a votary of" temperance, Xen.
3. also of sacred rites, "to perform", Eur., Anth.