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εὔορκος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὔορκος εὔορκον

Structure: εὐορκ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. keeping one's oath, faithful to one's oath
  2. faithfully, in accordance with, oath, no breach of oath

Examples

  • οὐδέ τισ εὐόρκου χάρισ ἔσσεται οὔτε δικαίου οὔτ’ ἀγαθοῦ, μᾶλλον δὲ κακῶν ῥεκτῆρα καὶ ὕβριν ἀνέρεσ αἰνήσουσι· (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 22:12)
  • ἀνδρὸσ δ’ εὐόρκου γενεὴ μετόπισθεν ἀμείνων. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 34:6)
  • ἀλλ’ εἴ τι χαίρεισ ἀνδρὸσ εὐόρκου τρόποισ, ἐμοὶ φράσον. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Prologue 2:9)
  • τάδε δὲ ὑμῶν δέομαι, μετ’ εὐνοίασ μου τὴν ἀκρόασιν τῆσ ἀπολογίασ ποιήσασθαι, καὶ μήτ’ ἐμοὶ ἀντιδίκουσ καταστῆναι μήτε ὑπονοεῖν τὰ λεγόμενα μήτε ῥήματα θηρεύειν, ἀκροασαμένουσ δὲ διὰ τέλουσ τῆσ ἀπολογίασ τότε ἤδη ψηφίζεσθαι τοῦτο ὅ τι ἂν ὑμῖν αὐτοῖσ ἄριστον καὶ εὐορκότατον νομίζητε εἶναι. (Andocides, Speeches, 16:3)
  • καὶ τάδ’ εὐόρκωσ ἔχει. (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, episode4)

Related

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

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