SUMMON Copy link • SUMMONTo call out or forth, provocare (to challenge to a contest, whether in jest or in earnest): vocare, evocare ad bellum, etc.; also, simply evocare (to call out to military service): appellare (to go to anybody by way of request, or in a threatening manner): cohortari (to exhort, encourage to a performance): appellare cohortarique: deposcere (to press or urge to a performance, also to challenge to a contest): admonere (to warn with threats; e.g., a debtor to payment). To summon anybody as a witness, testem aliquem citare or excitare: to summon a town, an enemy, to surrender, postulare ut urbs tradatur; denunciare urbi ut se dedat (with threats); hostem ad deditionem invitare (in a gentle manner); denunciare hosti ut se (urbemque) dedat (in a threatening manner): to summon to fight, to battle, lacessere proelium, pugnam. To cite (before a court), citare (of the herald; a defendant, reum; a witness, testem; Vid: Ernesti, Cl, Cic., s., v.): aliquem in jus vocare or in judicium adducere (of the plaintiff or accuser himself; the former in civil, the latter in criminal cases). ☞ in judicium vocare or arcessere is not Latin. To convene, convoke, convocare [Vid: CONVENE]. A summoning of Parliament, *ordinum convocatio (convocatio is used in a similar sense, Auctor of Orat., post Red. in Sen., 15, 38).