Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

διώμοτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: διώμοτος διώμοτη διώμοτον

Structure: διωμοτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: dio/mnumi

Sense

  1. bound by oath

Examples

  • ’πὶ τοῦτον ἄνδρε τώδ’ ὥπερ κλύεισ, ὁ Τυδέωσ παῖσ ἥ τ’ Ὀδυσσέωσ βία, διώμοτοι πλέουσιν ἦ μὴν ἢ λόγῳ πείσαντεσ ἄξειν ἢ πρὸσ ἰσχύοσ κράτοσ. (Sophocles, Philoctetes, episode 2:2)
  • ἢ τίσ μᾶλλον σὺν θεοῖσ εἰπεῖν, τουτὶ γὰρ ἔμοιγε ἡγείσθω πάσησ παρρησίασ, ἀμφοτέρων ἥψατο τῶν ἐθνῶν, λέγω καὶ τῶν δεξιῶν καὶ τῶν οὓσ πολλοὺσ ὀνομάζομεν, οἵ γε καὶ μηδενὸσ αὐτοὺσ ἐπαναγκάζοντοσ νόμου διώμοτοι τὴν ψῆφον φέρουσιν. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 11:5)

Synonyms

  1. bound by oath

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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