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ἐκάλεσε (ekalese)

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

Found 70 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 9.12.109: … ἰς Ἦλιν ἀποδημῆσαι μετὰ τῆς γυναικὸς κἀκεῖ διατρίβειν ἕως αὐτῷ παῖδες ἐγένοντο, ὧν τὸν μὲν πρεσβύτερον Ξάνθον ἐκάλεσε καὶ ἰατρικὴν ἐδίδαξε καὶ διάδοχον τοῦ βίου κατέλιπε.

Xenophon, Cyropaedia 2.3.19: … ἅμα μὲν ἐγυμνάζοντο, ἅμα δʼ ηὐθυμοῦντο, ἅμα δʼ ἐνίκων οἱ εἰκασθέντες τῇ τῶν Περσῶν ὁπλίσει, τούτοις δὴ ἡσθεὶς ἐκάλεσέ τε ἐπὶ δεῖπνον αὐτοὺς καὶ ἐν τῇ σκηνῇ ἰδών τινας αὐτῶν ἐπιδεδεμένους, τὸν μέν τινα ἀντικνήμιον, τὸν δὲ χεῖρα, …

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.