Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ὅρκιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὅρκιος ὅρκιον

Structure: ὁρκι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. belonging to an oath
  2. sworn, bound by oath, as if on oath
  3. that which is sworn by, invoked to witness an oath, sworn by

Declension

First/Second 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

  • ὑβρισταὶ κάρτα ἐόντεσ ἀθέμιστα ἔργα ἔπρησσον, οὔτε γὰρ ὁρ́κια ἐφύλασσον οὔτε ξείνουσ ἐδέκοντο οὔτε ἱκετέων ἠνείχοντο, ἀνθ’ ὧν σφίσιν ἡ μεγάλη συμφορὴ ἀπίκετο. (Lucian, De Syria dea, (no name) 12:6)
  • στείχωμεν, Ἄδρασθ’, ὁρ́κια δῶμεν τῷδ’ ἀνδρὶ πόλει τ’· (Euripides, Suppliants, episode, anapests1)
  • ὁρᾷσ δὲ δὴ καὶ τὸν Ὅμηρον ἅ φησιν, ὡσ οὐκ ἔστι λέουσι καὶ ἀνδράσιν ὁρ́κια πιστά. (Lucian, Piscator, (no name) 3:4)
  • ἐκ τούτου μοι πιστὰ παρ’ ὑμῖν γνώμησ ἔσθ’ ὁρ́κια. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Parabasis, parabasis7)
  • τεκμήριον δ’ ἐπιφέρουσιν, ὅτι οἱ ἐννέα ἄρχοντεσ ὀμνύουσιν ἢ <μὴν> τὰ ἐπὶ Ἀκάστου ὁρ́κια ποιήσειν, ὡσ ἐπὶ τούτου τῆσ βασιλείασ παραχωρησάντων τῶν Κοδριδῶν ἀντὶ τῶν δοθεισῶν τῷ ἄρχοντι δωρεῶν. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 3 3:3)

Synonyms

  1. belonging to an oath

  2. sworn

  3. that which is sworn by

Related

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

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