Lexicon / G20425
ἐπίκλησις
epiklēsis
  • appellatio, appeal

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Glosses: appellatio, appeal

1. a surname or additional name; the accusative being used absolute as adverb, by surname , Ἀστυάναξ, ὃν Τρῶες ἐπίκλησιν καλέουσι Astyanax, as they call him by surname (his name being Scamandrius), (Iliad by Homer), etc.

2. generally, a name , (Thucydides)

3. an imputation , (Thucydides)

4. a calling upon, invocation, appeal , (Plutarch) (ML)