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ἐπιορκία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιορκία

Structure: ἐπιορκι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from e)pi/orkos

Sense

  1. a false oath

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐπιορκία ἐπιορκίᾱ ἐπιορκίαι
Genitive ἐπιορκίᾱς ἐπιορκίαιν ἐπιορκιῶν
Dative ἐπιορκίᾱͅ ἐπιορκίαιν ἐπιορκίαις
Accusative ἐπιορκίᾱν ἐπιορκίᾱ ἐπιορκίᾱς
Vocative ἐπιορκίᾱ ἐπιορκίᾱ ἐπιορκίαι

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

  • πάντασ δ̓ ἐπιμὶξ ἔχει αἷμα καὶ φόνοσ, κλοπὴ καὶ δόλοσ, φθορά, ἀπιστία, ταραχή, ἐπιορκία, θόρυβοσ ἀγαθῶν, (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 14:25)
  • ἀφ’ οὗ δ’ οὖν τοσοῦτοι γεγόναμεν, ἐπιδέδωκε μᾶλλον ἡ ἐπιορκία καὶ ἱεροσυλία, καὶ ὅλωσ καταπεφρονήκασιν ἡμῶν ‐ εὖ ποιοῦντεσ. (Lucian, Deorum concilium, (no name) 12:4)
  • μηχανήματα δ’ αὐτοῖσ κατὰ τοῦ ἀκούοντοσ ἥ τε ἀπάτη καὶ τὸ ψεῦδοσ καὶ ἡ ἐπιορκία καὶ προσλιπάρησισ καὶ ἀναισχυντία καὶ ἄλλα μυρία ῥᾳδιουργήματα. (Lucian, Calumniae non temere credundum, (no name) 20:1)
  • συνεισέρχεται γὰρ μοιχεία καὶ φιλαργυρία καὶ ἐπιορκία καὶ τὸ τοιοῦτο φῦλον τῶν ἡδονῶν, παρασύρεται δὲ τῆσ ψυχῆσ ὑποκλυζομένησ πάντοθεν αἰδὼσ καὶ ἀρετὴ καὶ δικαιοσύνη· (Lucian, Nigrinus, Nigrinou Fiaosofia 16:3)
  • ἐὰν δὲ ᾖ γεγενημένοσ ὑφ’ αὑτοῦ καὶ ἐναντίοσ, ὅτι οὐκ ἐπιορκία· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 15 32:3)

Synonyms

  1. a false oath

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

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