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Headword: Ἐκκαλέσασθαι
Adler number: epsilon,343
Translated headword: to win over
Vetting Status: low
Translation:
To incite, to motivate.[1] "[...] eager to win over those in positions of authority to the objectives of the Romans."[2]
Greek Original:
Ἐκκαλέσασθαι: παραθῆξαι, παρορμῆσαι. ἐκκαλέσασθαι σπουδάζων τοὺς ἐπὶ πραγμάτων ταττομένους πρὸς τὰς τῶν Ῥωμαίων ἐλπίδας.
Notes:
[1] Aorist middle infinitive of ἐκκαλέω (cf. epsilon 344), presumably from the quotation which follows.
[2] Polybius 3.69.4, on Hannibal in the prelude to the battle of the Trebia (218 BCE); the present 'Romans' should of course be 'Carthaginians'. See web address 1.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; military affairs; politics
Translated by: David Whitehead on 5 February 2007@04:12:06.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (cosmetics, link, status) on 5 February 2007@21:21:11.
David Whitehead (augmented n.2 and keywords) on 6 February 2007@03:06:26.
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