The corpus record — Latin

evocatio

evocatio · f

a calling out

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Where it lives

De Bello Alexandrino 1 · 0.96/10k
Adversus Marcionem 1 · 0.12/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

ēvŏcātĭo — Lewis & Short

ēvŏcātĭo, ōnis, f.evoco,

I a calling out, calling forth (very rare).

I In gen.: inferorum, an evoking, Plin. 30, 1, 2, § 6: deorum ex urbibus obsessis, Macr. S. 3, 9. —

II In partic.

A A summoning of a debtor, Hirt. B. Alex. 56 fin.—

B A calling out, summoning of soldiers on an occasion of sudden danger, Auct. Her. 3, 2, 3: militiae, Jul. Val. Rer. Gest. Alex. 2, 7; cf. Don. Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 2; Serv. Verg. A. 7, 614.

Where it came from

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