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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

  • ἀλλ’ εἴπερ ἴσχει Ζεὺσ ἔτ’ ἐξ ἐμοῦ σέβασ, εὖ τοῦτ’ ἐπίστασ’, ὁρ́κιοσ δέ σοι λέγω· (Sophocles, Antigone, episode 3:13)
  • ὁ δ’, ὡσ ἀνὴρ γενναῖοσ, οὐκ οἴκτου μέτα κατῄνεσεν τάδ’ ὁρ́κιοσ δράσειν ξένῳ. (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode 1:10)
  • "Δαιμονίη, Ζεὺσ αὐτὸσ Ὀλύμπιοσ ὁρ́κιοσ ἔστω, Ἥρη τε Ζυγίη, Διὸσ εὐνέτισ, ἦ μὲν ἐμοῖσιν κουριδίην σε δόμοισιν ἐνιστήσεσθαι ἄκοιτιν, εὖτ’ ἂν ἐσ Ἑλλάδα γαῖαν ἱκώμεθα νοστήσαντεσ. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 2:25)
  • ἐπίκλησισ μὲν Ὅρκιόσ ἐστιν αὐτῷ, ἔχει δὲ ἐν ἑκατέρᾳ κεραυνὸν χειρί. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 24 14:2)

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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