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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

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

  • καὶ μὴν οὐχ ὁρῶ ὅ τι τὸ ἀγαθὸν αὐτῷ πρόσεστιν, εἰ μὴ ἄρα ἕν τι μόνον, ὅτι βαρύνονται οἱ φέροντεσ αὐτό, οὐ γὰρ οἶσθα ὅσοι πόλεμοι διὰ τοῦτο καὶ ἐπιβουλαὶ καὶ λῃστήρια καὶ ἐπιορκίαι καὶ φόνοι καὶ δεσμὰ ^ καὶ ἐμπορίαι καὶ δουλεῖαι; (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 11:6)

Synonyms

  1. a false 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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