προκαλ-έω,
call forth, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 44.34 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]:—passive, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 22.9.2 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; to be evoked, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Fragmenta” 411. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__B mostly middle, call out to fight, challenge, Αἴας δὲ πρῶτος προκαλέσσατο [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.809, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.142; ἴθι νῦν προκάλεσσαι.. Μενέλαον ἐξαῦτις μαχέσασθαι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.432, compare 7.39; προκαλέσσατο χάρμῃ [prev. work] 218 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; so, later, π. εἰς ἀγῶνα [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.3.17, compare 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Symp.” 20; εἰς μονομαχίαν 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “Varia Historia” 1.24; μάχῃ “Anacreontea” 12.7 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ταῦτα π. τοὺς συνόντας thus.., [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.4.4 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; challenge to drink, [[ 5th c.BC: Critias Philosophus, Tragicus, Elegiacus “fragment” 6.7 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. τινὰ συμπαίζει; συγγυμνάζεσθαι, [[ 6th c.BC: Anacreon Lyricus 14.4, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 217c: proverbial, ἱππέας εἰς πεδίον προκαλῇ, Σωκράτη εἰς λόγους προκαλούμενος,] Refs 6th c.BC+] of one who challenges another in his own department, [[ [prev. author] “Tht.” 183d, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 268. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__B.2 invite or summon, τινὰ ἐς λόγους [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.201, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.34; ἐς σπονδὰς καὶ διάλυσιν πολέμου [prev. author] 4.19; ἐπὶ ξυμμαχίαν [prev. author] 5.43; ἐπὶ τιμωρίαν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.226; πρὸς τὸ συνδειπνεῖν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 217c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; [ἰχθῦς] πρὸς τὴν θήραν π. entice them out, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 534a17 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; πρὸς αὑτόν τινας endeavour to attach them to oneself, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.77.7. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]