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εὐορκία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐορκία

Structure: εὐορκι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from eu)/orkos

Sense

  1. fidelity to one's 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

  • εἰ γὰρ ἀποψηφιεῖσθε τούτου φανερῶσ οὕτωσ παρὰ τοὺσ νόμουσ εἰρηκότοσ, δόξετε πᾶσιν τὰ χρήματα ταῦτ’ ἀντὶ τῶν νόμων καὶ τῆσ εὐορκίασ ᾑρῆσθαι. (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 58:2)
  • ἔκτειναν δὲ καὶ Ῥῆγλον αἰκισάμενοι, στρατηγὸν ἕτερον ἡμῶν, ὑπ’ εὐορκίασ ἐπανελθόντα πρὸσ αὐτούσ. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 9 9:5)

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

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