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ἐπί-κλητος , ον,
A.called upon, called in as ally, Hdt.5.75, 7.203, Th.4.61.
2.. specially summoned, σύλλογον ἐ. Περσέων τῶν ἀρίστων ἐποιέετο held a privy council, Hdt.7.8 (so Subst. ἐπίκλητος, ἡ, convocation, assembly, LXXNu.28.18,al.); ἐπίκλητοι privy councillors, among the Persians, Hdt.8.101, 9.42; committee of a council, SIG353.2 (Ephesus, iv B.C.), Str.14.1.21.
3.. called to an office, D.H.2.76; “ἐ. τῆς συναγωγῆς” LXXNu.1.16.
b.. appointed, designated, πόλεις ib.Jo.20.9.
4.. summoned before a court, accused, D.C.78.21.
II.. invited in addition, supernumerary guest, Ar.Pax 1266, Plu.2.707a.
2.. alien, foreign, ὄχλος, opp. ἐπιχώριος, D.H. 6.53.
b.. irrelevant, “λοιδορία” Plb.8.11.2.
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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    • Aristophanes, Peace, 1266
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.203
    • Herodotus, Histories, 5.75
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.8
    • Herodotus, Histories, 8.101
    • Herodotus, Histories, 9.42
    • Old Testament, Joshua, 20.9
    • Old Testament, Numbers, 1.16
    • Strabo, Geography, 14.1.21
    • Thucydides, Histories, 4.61
    • Polybius, Histories, 8.11.2
    • Old Testament, Numbers, 28.18
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 2.76
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 6.53
    • Cassius Dio, Historia Romana, 78.21
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