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ἐξωμοσία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐξωμοσία

Structure: ἐξωμοσι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: e)co/mnumi

Sense

  1. denial on oath that one knows anything
  2. a declining an office on oath

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • εἰωθὼσ δὲ στρατηγεῖν παρ’ ἐνιαυτόν, ὡσ ἡ τάξισ αὐτῷ περιῆλθε, καλούμενοσ ἐξωμόσατο, καὶ Τιμόξενοσ ᾑρέθη στρατηγόσ, ἐδόκει δὲ ἡ μὲν πρὸσ τοὺσ ὄχλουσ ὀργὴ πρόφασισ εἶναι λεγομένη τῆσ ἐξωμοσίασ ἀπίθανοσ, αἰτία δ’ ἀληθὴσ τὰ περιεστῶτα τοὺσ Ἀχαιούσ, οὐκέθ’ ὡσ πρότερον ἀτρέμα καὶ σχέδην τοῦ Κλεομένουσ ἐπιβαίνοντοσ οὐδ’ ἐμπλεκομένου ταῖσ πολιτικαῖσ ἀρχαῖσ, ἀλλ’ ἐπεὶ τοὺσ ἐφόρουσ ἀποκτείνασ καὶ τὴν χώραν ἀναδασάμενοσ καὶ πολλοὺσ τῶν μετοίκων ἐμβαλὼν εἰσ τὴν πολιτείαν ἔσχεν ἰσχὺν ἀνυπεύθυνον, εὐθὺσ ἐπικειμένου τοῖσ Ἀχαιοῖσ καὶ τῆσ ἡγεμονίασ ἑαυτὸν ἀξιοῦντοσ. (Plutarch, Aratus, chapter 38 2:1)
  • ἀλλ’ ὑπὲρ μὲν τῆσ ἐξωμοσίασ ἐν τοῖσ κοινοῖσ τοῖσ ὑμετέροισ γράμμασιν ἐν τῷ μητρῴῳ ταῦτ’ ἐστίν, ἐφ’ οἷσ ὁ δημόσιοσ τέτακται, καὶ ψήφισμ’ ἄντικρυσ περὶ τούτου τοῦ ὀνόματοσ γέγραπται· (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 168:2)

Synonyms

  1. a declining an office on oath

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

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