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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

  • ὃ δ’ αἰνέσασ ταῦθ’ ὁρκίουσ τε δοὺσ θεούσ, ἔδρασεν οὐδὲν ὧν ὑπέσχετ’, ἀλλ’ ἔχει τυραννίδ’ αὐτὸσ καὶ δόμων ἐμῶν μέροσ. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, lyric 7:5)
  • μάρτυρασ δὲ θεοὺσ τούσ τε ὁρκίουσ τότε γενομένουσ ποιούμενοι καὶ τοὺσ ὑμετέρουσ πατρῴουσ καὶ ἡμετέρουσ ἐγχωρίουσ λέγομεν ὑμῖν, γῆν τὴν Πλαταιίδα μὴ ἀδικεῖν μηδὲ παραβαίνειν τοὺσ ὁρ́κουσ, ἐᾶν δὲ οἰκεῖν αὐτονόμουσ, ὥσπερ Παυσανίασ ἐδικαίωσε. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 36 2:2)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ πρᾶγμα δεῦρ’ ἐπέσκηψεν τόδε, φόνων δικαστὰσ ὁρκίουσ αἱρουμένη θεσμὸν τὸν εἰσ ἅπαντ’ ἐγὼ θήσω χρόνον. (Aeschylus, Eumenides, episode 4:3)
  • ἠγριωμένησ δὲ τῆσ βουλῆσ, ὡσ ἔμαθον οἱ δήμαρχοι πλείουσ ὄντασ τοὺσ βουλομένουσ ἀφελέσθαι τὴν δοθεῖσαν ἐξουσίαν τῷ δήμῳ τῶν ἐμμένειν ταῖσ ὁμολογίαισ ἀξιούντων, ἐξέδραμον ἐκ τοῦ βουλευτηρίου κεκραγότεσ καὶ θεοὺσ τοὺσ ὁρκίουσ ἐπικαλούμενοι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 7, chapter 26 1:1)
  • οἱ μὲν δὴ πίστεισ τε καὶ θεοὺσ ὁρκίουσ ἐπικαλούμενοι, καὶ Ῥωμαίουσ ἐσ ἀπιστίαν λοιδοροῦντεσ, διεφθείροντο ὠμῶσ, ἐκ δισμυρίων ἀνδρῶν κατὰ πύλασ ἀποκρήμνουσ διαφυγόντων ὀλίγων· (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 9 9:6)

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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