Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon

A.“-καλέσω” LXX Jb.7.13, al.:—call to one, X.An.3.1.32.

II. call in, send for, summon, Hdt.1.77, Ar.V.215, etc.; “σύμμαχον π. τινά” Hdt.7.158, cf. Th.1.119, Pl.Phd. 89c, etc.; “π. ἑταίρους” And.4.14; “π. τινὰ ἐς τὸν πόλεμον” Hdt.7.205, cf. D.18.24; “π. τινὰ σύμβουλον” X.An.1.6.5; “τινὰς εἰς συμβουλήν” Pl.La. 186a; “συνήγορον” Aeschin.2.184; invoke the gods, “τοὺς θεούς” D.18.8; περὶ τούτου τὸν θεόν (as medical adviser) IG42(1).126.31 (Epid., ii A. D.); “τὸν Ἐνυάλιον” X.HG2.4.17; “Διόνυσον εἰς τὴν τελετήν” Pl.Lg. 666b; [“τοὺς θεοὺς] π. βοηθούς” Arr.Epict.3.21.12:—Pass., παρακαλούμενος καὶ ἄκλητος, 'vocatus atque non vocatus', Th.1.118; “-κληθέντες ἐς ξυμμαχίαν” Id.5.31; παρακαλουμένη ἀμύνειν being called upon to ward off, Pl.Lg.692e; “-κληθεὶς γυμνασιαρχῆσαι” OGI339.53 (Sestos, ii B. C.).

2. summon one's friends to attend one in a trial, “π. τοὺς φίλους” Is.1.7, etc.; π. τινάς call them as witnesses, Lys.14.28; “π. πάντας ἀνθρώπους” D.34.29:—Med., dub. in Lycurg.28:—Pass., παρακεκλημένοι summoned to attend at a trial, Aeschin.1.173.

b. summon a defendant into court, in Pass., PTeb.297.5 (ii A. D.), Mitteis Chr.71.5 (v A. D.).

3. invite, “ἐπὶ δαῖτα” E.Ba.1247; εἰς (v.l. ἐπὶ）“ θήραν” X.Cyr.4.6.3; ἐπὶ τὸ βῆμα π. invite him to mount the tribune, Aeschin.3.72.

4. appeal to, “τινὰ περὶ γῆς” App.Pun.136.

III. exhort, encourage, “τάξις τάξιν παρεκάλει” A.Pers.380, cf. Plb.1.60.5; “π. τινὰ εἰς μάχην” E.Ph.1254; “τινὰ ἐπὶ τὰ κάλλιστα ἔργα” X.An.3.1.24; “π. τὴν νόησιν εἰς ἐπίσκεψιν” Pl.R.523b; “πρὸς τὸ μνημονεύειν” Isoc.3.12: c. inf., E.Cyc.156, X.An.5.6.19, Decr. ap. D.18.185:—Pass., Isoc.2.14; “παρακέκληται ἡ διάνοια” Arist.EN1175a7.

2. comfort, console, “τοὺς πενθοῦντας” LXX Si.48.24:—Pass., Ev.Matt.2.18, 5.4.

3. excite, “τινὰ ἐς φόβον” E.Or.1583; “ἐς δάκρυα” Id.IA497; incite, π. καὶ παροξύνειν ἐπί . . Epicur.Nat.54 G.; of things, foment, “φλόγα” X.Cyr.7.5.23.

IV. demand, require, “ὁ θάλαμος σκεύη π.” Id.Oec.9.3:—Pass., τὰ παρακαλούμενα proposals, demands, Philipp. ap. D.18.166sq., Plb.4.29.3.

V. beseech, entreat, Id.4.82.8, PTeb.24.46 (ii B. C.), etc.; π. τινὰ ἵνα . . Aristeas 318, Ev.Marc.8.22, Arr.Epict.2.7.11, etc.; ὅπως . . Ev.Matt.8.34: but ἐρωτῶ καὶ π. for δέομαι is condemned by Hermog.Meth.3.

VI. Pass., relent, πρός, ἐπί τινι, towards a person, LXX Jd.21.6, 15, cf. 2 Ki. 24.16.

2. repent, regret, παρακέκλημαι ὅτι . . ib. 1 Ki.15.11.