κλῆσις, εως, ἡ,
(καλέω) calling, call, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 172a, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.2.14, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 calling into court, summons, prosecution, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 875, 1189, etc.; τὰς κλήσεις καλεῖσθαι ὅσας ἔδει 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 6.38; ἀφιέναι τὰς κ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 1.7.13. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 invitation to a feast, [[ [prev. author] “Smp.” 1.7; εἰς τὸ πρυτανεῖον 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.32; κλήσεις δείπνων 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pericles” 7, cf. Parmenisc. cited in 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 4.156d. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__4 invocation, θεῶν[[ Men.Rh. p.333 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__5 calling to aid, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 2.50.7. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__6 calling in a religious sense, [[ NT.1Cor.7.20. ] NT]
__II name, appellation, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 262d, 287e, 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 1.42; τοὺς θεοὺς εἶναι κ. ἱεράς 4th-3rd c.BC: Cleanthes Stoicus 1.123; Φιλησίη τὴν κ. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]by name, [[ Inscriptiones Graecae 14.2067 ] Refs]; reputation, [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 2.46 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus ] Refs 5th c.BC+]