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ἔκ-κλητος , ον, （ἐκκαλέω）
A.selected to judge or arbitrate on a point, ἐ. πόλις an umpire city, Aeschin. 1.89, IG22.111.49,al., cf. Plu.2.215c ; “ἐν ἐκκλήτῳ δικάσασθαι” Michel1335.30 ; “δίκην ὠφληκὼς ἐν τῇ ἐ.” IG12(7).67.63 (Amorgos) ; χρόνος ἔ. time-limit for appeals, PRev.Laws21.15 (iii B.C.).
2. οἱ ἔκκλητοι, in Sparta and elsewhere, a committee of citizens chosen to report on certain questions, X.HG2.4.38 ; “ἔ. Ἀργείων ὄχλος” E.Or. 612, cf.949.
3. subject to appeal, “δίκας” IG22.111.74, D.C.52.22 ; “κρίσις” PHal.1.68 (iii B.C.) ; τὰς ἐκκλήτους [δίκας]..ἐφ᾽ αὑτὸν ποιούμενος, prob. for ἐγκ-, Arist.Oec.1348b14 ; ἔκκλητον δικάζειν exercise appellate jurisdiction, D.C.51.19.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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