omen, presage contained in a chance utterance, χαῖρεν δὲ κλεηδόνι δῖος Ὀδυσσεύς Od. 18.117, 20.120; ὁ μὲν τῇ κ. οὐδὲν χρεώμενος (supr. φήμη) Hdt. 5.72; κληδόνας τε δυσκρίτους ἐγνώρισʼ αὐτοῖς A. Pr. 486, cf. S. El. 1110, Call. Epigr. 1.14: in later Prose, κληδόνων ἀκούσονται LXX De. 18.14 ( v.l. - ονισμῶν), cf. Polystr. p.5 W.; μαντικὴ ἀπὸ κληδόνων Paus. 9.11.7, cf. PMag.Oxy. 886.22 (iii A.D.); δέχομαι τὴν κ. Luc. Laps. 8: personified, in pl., Paus. l.c.; Φήμη καὶ Κ., = Lat. Aius Locutius, Plu. Cam. 30.
σῶς (A), ὁ, ἡ, σῶν, τό, defect. Adj. of which the foll. forms occur: Att. and later Gr. nom. σῶς, σῶν, Th. 8.81, D. 21.126; acc. σῶν Th. 3.34, D. 20.142; nom. pl. σῷ (written σῶ, but cf. EM 742.1)cited by Ael.Dion. Fr. 302 from Th. 1.74 (where σῶοι codd.); also σοῖ Ael.Dion. l.c.; acc. pl.masc. σῶς D. 5.17, 8.16, 19.75, Luc. Phal. 2.4; fem. sg. σᾶ Ar. Fr. 631, IG 14.644.15 ( Bruttium), prob. in ib. 2(2).123.8, but σῶς as fem., E. Cyc. 294, Ar. Fr. 658, Pl. Phd. 106a, Call. Aet. 3.1.40 [Fr. 75.40 Pf.]; neut. pl. σᾶ E. Fr. 762, Pl. Criti. 111c, Ath.Mitt. 49.3 ( Attica, iv B.C.): Ep. nom. sg. masc. σῶς Il. (here guaranteed by the metre), 13.773, Od. 5.305, 15.42, 16.131, 22.28; σόος 19.300; acc. σῶν Il. 1.117 (v.l. σόον, σάον), 17.367 (v.l. σόον) ; σόον 7.310, 8.246, 16.252 (v.l. σάον); nom. sg. fem. σόη 15.497; nom. pl. masc. σόοι 1.344, 5.531, 15.563, Od. 4.98; nom. pl. neut. σόα Il. 24.382, Od. 13.364: Hdt. has nom. sg. σῶς 1.24, al.; neut. σόον (v.l. σῶον) 2.181; pl. σόοι (v.l. σῶοι) 8.39; fem. σόαι ( σῶαι codd.) 1.66; neut. σόα (v.l. σῶα) 4.124, 6.86.αʹ; gen. pl. neut. σόων (v.l. σώων) 2.121.βʹ: Hp. has σῶον Art. 53: the stem σωο- never appears in Hom. or early poets, but is found in later poetry (nom. σῶος Max. 386; Comp. σωότερος A.R. 1.918), and in an Att. prose Inscr., neut. σῶον IG 1(2).59.13, along with σῶν ib. 128.6, 2(2).1172.14; the foll. forms from σωο- are found in Att. and later texts: σῶος X. An. 3.1.32, Luc. Abd. 5; σῶον Lys. 7.17, 20.24, Arist. Oec. 1347a24, Plu. An seni 2.786f, Sor. 2.60, Aristid. 1.425 J., Lib. Or. 48.3; σῶοι X. An. 2.2.21, al., D. 19.57, 153,326; σώους Luc. Laps. 8, Aristid. 1.426 J.; σῶα X. Cyr. 7.4.13, HG 1.1.24, Arist. Ath. 30.4; fem. σώα X. HG 7.4.4, D. 56.37, Aristid. 2.78 J.; acc. σώαν D. 21.177, Aristid. 2.428 J.; gen. σώας D. 19.78, OGI 214.20 ( Didyma, iii B.C.): the Papyri have acc.sg.masc. σῶον PLond. 2.301.13 (ii A.D.), etc., acc. pl. neut. σῶα BGU 1106.31 (i B.C.), etc.: the word is rare in LXX, acc. sg. masc. σῶον 2 Ma. 12.24; nom. pl. fem. σῶαι (v.l. σῶοι) Thd. Bel 17; acc. pl. masc. σώους 3 Ma. 2.7; neut. σῶα 2 Ma. 3.15; not found in NT: acc. to Thom.Mag. p.328R. σῶς is Att. for σῶος, σῶν for σῶον (masc. and neut.), σῶς for σώους and σώας, but all other Att. forms are un contr. ( σῶοι, σῶα): the form σῷος is recommended by Did. ap. EM 741.43, but rejected by Hdn.Gr. ib. 46 (cf. Hdn.Gr. 2.53), and is found in cod. Σ of D. 18.49, al.; σῴην Babr. 94.8; σῷον AP 6.349.6 ( Phld.): the form σάος is preserved as v.l. in Il. 1.117 (ap. A.D. Conj. 223.10), 16.252, and in the Comp. σαώτερος, v. σάος:—