Ἐκκαλεῖται
calls out, provokes
Translated by David Whitehead5 Feb 2007Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
[Meaning he/she/it] summons.1
"Caecilius, observing him [= Hannibal] emboldened, and wishing to provoke him to make a move, kept the soldiers inside the gates."2 ['To provoke'] meaning to summon.
Also [sc. attested is the participle]e)kkalou/menoi ["being provoked"], [meaning they] being summoned or taking care. "With the senate taking no care [as to] whether they were provoking the slander against themselves in order not to appear to be bringing Marcius against the city themselves, or contending with the populus and habituating it not to condemn lightly a man of patrician birth".3
"Caecilius, observing him [= Hannibal] emboldened, and wishing to provoke him to make a move, kept the soldiers inside the gates."2 ['To provoke'] meaning to summon.
Also [sc. attested is the participle]