ἐκλήθησαν (eklethesan)

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

Found 48 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.101.2: … έστησαν. πλεῖστοι δὲ τῶν Εἱλώτων ἐγένοντο οἱ τῶν παλαιῶν Μεσσηνίων τότε δουλωθέντων ἀπόγονοι· ᾗ καὶ Μεσσήνιοι ἐκλήθησαν οἱ πάντες.

Plato, Timaeus 43: … πὸ πάντων τούτων διὰ τοῦ σώματος αἱ κινήσεις ἐπὶ τὴν ψυχὴν φερόμεναι προσπίπτοιεν· αἳ δὴ καὶ ἔπειτα διὰ ταῦτα ἐκλήθησάν τε καὶ νῦν ἔτι αἰσθήσεις συνάπασαι κέκληνται.

Agathemerus, Geographiae informatio 1.4: Ἐκλήθησαν δ᾿ ἤπειροι ἄπειροί τινες οὖσαι δι᾿ ἄγνοιαν· Ἀσία δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ ἆσσον εἶναι τοῖς ἀπ᾿ Εὐρώπης ἀπιοῦσι καὶ πεζῇ καὶ …

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.