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ἐκκα^λέω ,
A.call out or forth, summon forth, Il.24.582, etc.; “τινὰ δόμων” E.Ba.170 ; “ἔνδοθεν” Lys.3.8 ; crave speech of, “τινά” S.OT597 codd.
II. Med., call out to oneself, “ψυχάς” Od.24.1, cf. Hdt.8.79, S.Ph.1264.
2. call forth, elicit, “χαρὰ δάκρυον ἐκκαλουμένη” A.Ag.270 ; “ὀργήν” Aeschin. 2.3 ; “ἴσως ἂν ἐκκαλέσαιθ᾽ 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. 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. VS2.8.4, 2.10.1.
4. demand, require, “ὡς τὰ φαινόμενα-εῖται” Epicur.Ep.2p.36U., cf. 53 U.
III. Pass., = Lat. evocari, of foreign numina, Plu.2.278f.
IV. Med., appeal against, κρίσιν ἐπί τινα ib.178f; refer, προβλήματα ἐπὶ τὴν τῶν ἀλόγων φύσιν ὥσπερ ἀλλοδαπὴν πόλιν ib.493b.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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