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μάρτυρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μάρτυρος μάρτυρᾱ μάρτυρον

Structure: μαρτυρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: old Ep. form for martus, Hom.

Sense

Examples

  • ἐμοῦ γὰρ οὐθεὶσ ἂν ὑμῶν τὴν φωνὴν ἀνάσχοιτ’ ἂν ἀκούων, εἰ νῦν μὲν ὑπόδικον ἐμαυτὸν καθιστὰσ μαρτυρῶ, ὡσ ἔστιν ἀδελφὸσ ἡμέτεροσ, ὕστερον δὲ φαινοίμην τούτοισ ἀντιλέγων. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 17 1:8)
  • σοὶ μέν, Ἑρμεία, πεπειραμένοσ Ἐράστου καὶ Κορίσκου πλέονα ἢ σύ, φημὶ καὶ μηνύω καὶ μαρτυρῶ μὴ ῥᾳδίωσ εὑρήσειν σε ἀξιοπιστότερα ἤθη τούτων τῶν γειτόνων· (Plato, Epistles, Letter 6 7:2)
  • καὶ μαρτυρῶ κάκιστοσ ἀνθρώπων τροφαῖσ ταῖσ σαῖσιν ἥκειν· (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode9)
  • ἐπεὶ δ’ εἰσ ἀμφισβήτησιν ἦλθε τὸ πρᾶγμα, μαρτυρῶ τ’ αὐτῷ ταῦτα καὶ κρίνω εἶναι τοῦτον τῆσ παιδίσκησ κύριον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 11, chapter 36 7:2)
  • κἀγὼ δὲ μαρτυρῶ τούτοισ· (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 2 26:1)

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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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