Socratos Sign in

κλῆσιν (klesin)

κλῆσιν is an Ancient Greek form of κλῆσις, meaning “calling, summons”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 54 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 9.8.54: (οἱ 〈·〉ὲ εἰς ἑπτά, διήγησιν, ἐρώτησιν, ἀπόκρισιν, ἐντολήν, ἀπαγγελίαν, εὐχωλήν, κλῆσιν), οὓς καὶ πυθμένας εἶπε λόγων. Ἀλκιδάμας δὲ τέτταρας λόγους φησί, φάσιν, ἀπόφασιν, ἐρώτησιν, προσαγόρευσιν. Π …

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 12.5.1: … υμνίου τοῦ βασιλέως Τυρρηνῶν πανδεινὰ ποιοῦντος κατʼ αὐτῶν χιλίαρχός τις Ῥωμαῖος, Αὖλος Κορνήλιος Κόσσος ἐπί- κλησιν, ἐλαύνει τὸν ἵππον κατὰ τοῦ Τολουμνίου· καὶ ἐπειδὴ ἀγχοῦ ἐγένετο, φέρουσι κατʼ ἀλλήλων τὰ δό-

All forms of κλῆσις (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.