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ἐκκαλέω

ekkaleo

call out, forth, summon forth, crave speech of

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Where it lives

Against Simon 2 · 9.18/10k
First Philippic 1 · 3.05/10k
Lysistrata 2 · 2.52/10k
Wasps 2 · 2.06/10k
Thesmophoriazusae 1 · 1.42/10k
Acharnians 1 · 1.41/10k
Trachiniae 1 · 1.38/10k
Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k
Ecclesiazusae 1 · 1.31/10k
Plutus 1 · 1.24/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k
Philoctetes 1 · 1.14/10k

Densest 12 of 22 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ἐκκᾰλέω · ekkaleō — LSJ

call out, forth, summon forth, crave speech of

call out or forth, summon forth, Il. 24.582, etc.; τινὰ δόμων E. Ba. 170; ἔνδοθεν Lys. 3.8; crave speech of, τινά S. OT 597 codd.

II call out to oneself

Med., call out to oneself, ψυχάς Od. 24.1, cf. Hdt. 8.79, S. Ph. 1264.

2 call forth, elicit, entice, provoke to battle

call forth, elicit, χαρὰ δάκρυον ἐκκαλουμένη A. Ag. 270; ὀργήν Aeschin. 2.3; ἴσως ἂν ἐκκαλέσαιθʼ ὑμᾶς D. 4.42, cf. Pl. Euthd. 288d; λιμὸν ἐ. Antiph. 217.23; τοὺς ἱππεῖς entice, provoke to battle, Plb. 1.19.2, cf. Ascl. Tact. 7.1.

3 call on, to, to be provoked

c. inf., call on one to do, S. Tr. 1206; ἐ. [τινὰ] ποτὶ ἔργα Ti.Locr. 104b : plpf. in med. sense, ἐξεκέκλητο πρὸς τὴν πρᾶξίν τινας Plb. 4.57.4 :—Pass., -κληθῆναι πρὸς τὰς ὠφελείας Id. 3.51.11; to be provoked, εἴς, ἐπί τι, Phld. Ir. pp. 52,95 W.; ἐς ὀργήν, δάκρυα, Philostr. VS 2.8.4, 2.10.1.

4 demand, require

demand, require, ὡς τὰ φαινόμενα-εῖται Epicur. Ep. 2p.36U., cf. 53 U.

III numina

Pass., = Lat. evocari, of foreign numina, Plu. Aet.Gr. 2.278f.

IV appeal against, refer

Med., appeal against, κρίσιν ἐπί τινα ib. Apophth.reg. 178f; refer, προβλήματα ἐπὶ τὴν τῶν ἀλόγων φύσιν ὥσπερ ἀλλοδαπὴν πόλιν ib. Am. prol. 493b.

In the wild

ἐκκαλουμένη · ekkaloumenē Aeschylus, Agamemnon 270
ἐκκάλεσον · ekkaleson Aristophanes, Acharnians (DIORISIS sentence 298)
ἐκκαλέσωμαι · ekkalesōmai Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae (DIORISIS sentence 21)
ἐκκάλεσόν · ekkaleson Aristophanes, Lysistrata 850 (DIORISIS sentence 637)
ἐκκαλεῖς · ekkaleis Aristophanes, Lysistrata 875 (DIORISIS sentence 666)
ἐκκάλει · ekkalei Aristophanes, Plutus (DIORISIS sentence 900)

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