ἐκάλεσαν (ekalesan)

ἐκάλεσαν is an Ancient Greek form of καλέω, meaning “to call, summon, name”. It is the 3rd person plural aorist active indicative.

Found 65 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride 11: … φοβερώτατον Ὦχον ἀποκτείναντα πολλούς, τέλος δὲ καὶ τὸν Ἆπιν ἀποσφάξαντα καὶ καταδειπνήσαντα μετὰ τῶν φίλων, ἐκάλεσαν μάχαιραν, καὶ καλοῦσι μέχρι νῦν οὕτως ἐν τῷ καταλόγῳ τῶν βασιλέων, οὐ κυρίως δήπου τὴν οὐσίαν αὐτοῦ σημαίνοντ …

Aesop, Fables 348: Βοῦν τινες ἐπʼ ἀγρῷ θύσαντες, τοὺς συγγενεῖς εκαλεσαν· ἐν δὲ τούτοις ἦν καὶ γυνὴ πενιχρὰ, μεθʼ ἧς καὶ ὁ παῖς. Τὸ δὲ παιδίον, τῶν κρεῶν πλήσας τὴν γαστέρα καὶ ὀδυνώ …

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 54.10.3: … ἀποδημίᾳ πραχθεῖσι πολλὰ καὶ παντοῖα ἐψηφίσθη· ὧν οὐδὲν προσήκατο, πλὴν Τύχῃ τε Ἐπαναγώγῳ (οὕτω γάρ πως αὐτὴν ἐκάλεσανʼ βωμὸν ἱδρυθῆναι καὶ τὴν ἡμέραν ἣν ἀφίξοιτο ἔν τε ταῖς ἱερομηνίαις ἀριθμεῖσθαι

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.