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διώμοτος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: diōmotos

Principal Part: διώμοτος διώμοτη διώμοτον

Structure: διωμοτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

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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