ἐκάλει (ekalei)

ἐκάλει is an Ancient Greek form of καλέω, meaning “to call, summon, name”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 258 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.48: ἔσχεθεν, εἴσω τέ σφʼ ἐκάλει, καὶ ἀπὸ θρόνου ὦρτο,

Plutarch, Caius Marius 43.3: ἐκαλει δὴ τὸ πλῆθος εἰς ἀγορὰν καὶ πρὸ τοῦ τρεῖς ἢ τέτταρας φυλὰς ἐνεγκεῖν τὴν ψῆφον ἀφεὶς τὸ πλάσμα καὶ τὴν φυγαδικ …

Eusebius of Caesarea, Ecclesiastical History 9.11.5: Ἐκάλει δὲ ἄρα καὶ Θεότεκνον ἡ δίκη, οὐδαμῶς τὰ κατὰ Χριστιανῶν αὐτῷ πεπραγμένα λήθῃ παραδιδοῦσα. ἐπὶ μὲν γὰρ τῷ κατ’ Ἀντιόχειαν ἱδρυθέντι πρὸς αὐτοῦ ξοάνῳ δόξας εὐημερεῖν, ἤδη καὶ ἡγεμονίας ἠξίωτο παρὰ Μαξιμίνου,

All forms of καλέω (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.