A.command, summons, Plb.9.38.2.
b. announcement, notice, IG22.1235.7 (iii B.C.); “τοῦ ἀγῶνος” SIG561.9 (Chalcis), prob. in LXX 1 Ma.10.15; v.l. in 1 Ep.Jo.1.5.
2. as law-term, ἐ. (sc. δοκιμασίας) summons to attend a δοκιμασία τῶν ῥητόρων (v. “ἐπαγγέλλω” 3), “ἐ. τινὶ ἐπαγγέλλειν” Aeschin.1.64, cf. 81; “πρὸς τοὺς θεσμοθέτας ἔσθ᾽ ἡμῖν ἐ.” D.22.29: generally, notification, summons, Sammelb. 4434 (ii A.D.).
3. offer, promise, profession, undertaking, D.21.14; “τὰς ὑπερβολὰς τῶν ἐ.” Arist.EN1164a29, cf. Phld.Herc.1251.20; “ἐπαγγελίας ποιεῖσθαί τινι” Plb.1.72.6; ἐν ἐν ἐπαγγελίᾳ καταλιπών having left it as a promise, Id.18.28.1; τὴν ἐ. ἐπὶ τέλος ἀγαγεῖν ibid., cf. SIG577.11 (Milet., iii/ii B. C.); ὤμων ἐπαγγελίᾳ the promise of his shoulders, Philostr.Im.1.4; ἐξ ἐ., = ἐπαγγειλάμενος, BCH11.12 (Lagina); “ἐ. ποιησάμενος ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων” Michel473.10 (Mylasa); “ἐβεβαίωσεν τὴν ἐ.” Inscr.Prien.123.9, cf. GDI3624a34 (Cos).
5. pl., canvassing, = Lat. ambitus, prob. f.l. for παρ-, Plu.2.276d.