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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

  • 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)
  • 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)
  • ὅλωσ γὰρ ἐπινόησόν μοι καὶ τῷ λογισμῷ διατύπωσον ποικιλωτάτην τινὰ ψυχῆσ κρᾶσιν ἐκ ψεύδουσ καὶ δόλων καὶ ἐπιορκιῶν καὶ κακοτεχνιῶν συγκειμένην, ῥᾳδίαν, τολμηράν, παράβολον, φιλόπονον ἐξεργάσασθαι τὰ νοηθέντα, καὶ πιθανὴν καὶ ἀξιόπιστον καὶ ὑκοκριτικὴν τοῦ βελτίονοσ καὶ τῷ ἐναντιωτάτῳ τῆσ βουλήσεωσ ἐοικυῖαν. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 4:9)
  • 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

Related

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

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