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ἔνορκος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔνορκος ἔνορκον

Structure: ἐνορκ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. bound by oath
  2. that whereto one is sworn

Examples

  • τοῖσ δὲ δικασταῖσ ἔνορκοσ ἡ κρίσισ. (Demades, On the Twelve Years, 61:3)
  • σὺ μὲν πέπλευκασ οὔτ’ ἔνορκοσ οὐδενὶ οὔτ’ ἐξ ἀνάγκησ οὔτε τοῦ πρώτου στόλου· (Sophocles, Philoctetes, episode 3:11)
  • ἴδια δὲ ἃ μηδενὶ ἄλλῳ συμβέβηκεν ἢ τῷ Ἀχιλλεῖ, οἱο͂ν τὸ ἀποκτεῖναι τὸν Ἕκτορα τὸν ἄριστον τῶν Τρώων καὶ τὸν Κύκνον, ὃσ ἐκώλυσεν ἅπαντασ ἀποβαίνειν ἄτρωτοσ ὤν, καὶ ὅτι νεώτατοσ καὶ οὐκ ἔνορκοσ ὢν ἐστράτευσεν, καὶ ὅσα ἄλλα τοιαῦτα. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 22 12:3)
  • τρίτον δὲ ὅπωσ Κερσοβλέπτησ ὁ Θρᾴκησ βασιλεὺσ μὴ ἔσται ἔνορκοσ, μηδέ μετέσται τῆσ συμμαχίασ καὶ τῆσ εἰρήνησ αὐτῷ. (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 652)
  • Ἐκκλησία ἔνορκοσ α’. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, E, Kef. e'. DHMHTRIOS 7:34)

Synonyms

  1. bound by oath

Related

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

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