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προκαλεῖσθαι (prokaleisthai)

προκαλεῖσθαι is an Ancient Greek form of προκαλέω, meaning “call forth, challenge”. It is the present middle/passive infinitive.

Found 26 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Marcellus 3.2: … οὺς Γαλάτας, ὀρθῶς καὶ δικαίως ἀτρεμήσαντας μαχομένων ἐκείνων, οὕτω τότε δὴ τοῖς νενικηκόσιν ἐπαποδύεσθαι καὶ προκαλεῖσθαι σχολὴν ἄγοντας· οὐ μὴν ἀλλὰ μέγαν ἥ τε χώρα παρεῖχε φόβον, διὰ τὴν γειτνίασιν ὁμόρῳ καὶ προσοίκῳ πολέμῳ συνοι …

Demosthenes, Against Stephanus I 11: ἐγὼ τοίνυν περὶ μὲν τοῦ προκαλεῖσθαί με ἢ μὴ ταῦτα Φορμίωνα, οὐδέν πω λέγω, οὐδʼ ὑπὲρ τοῦ τὰς διαθήκας ἀληθεῖς ἢ ψευδεῖς εἶναι, ἀλλʼ αὐτίχʼ ὑμᾶς π …

All forms of προκαλέω (conjugation 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.