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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

  • ἐπεὶ δ’ ἐκεῖνοί τε διὰ Νικίου μάλιστα τῆσ εἰρήνησ τυχόντεσ καὶ τοὺσ ἄνδρασ ἀπολαβόντεσ ὑπερηγάπων αὐτόν, ἔν τε τοῖσ Ἕλλησι λόγοσ ἦν ὡσ Περικλέουσ μὲν συνάψαντοσ αὐτοῖσ, Νικίου δὲ λύσαντοσ τὸν πόλεμον, οἵ τε πλεῖστοι τὴν εἰρήνην Νικίειον ὠνόμαζον, οὐ μετρίωσ ἀνιώμενοσ ὁ Ἀλκιβιάδησ καὶ φθονῶν ἐβούλευε σύγχυσιν ὁρκίων. (Plutarch, , chapter 14 2:1)
  • "ὑμεῖσ δέ, πρὸσ Διὸσ στρατίου καὶ θεῶν ὁρκίων, ἐνταῦθά με δι’ αὑτῶν κτείνατε. (Plutarch, chapter 17 4:3)
  • λέγεται δὲ τὸν Σόον ἐν χωρίῳ χαλεπῷ καὶ ἀνύδρῳ πολιορκούμενον ὑπὸ Κλειτορίων, ὁμολογῆσαι τὴν δορίκτητον γῆν αὐτοῖσ ἀφήσειν, εἰ πίοι καὶ αὐτὸσ καὶ οἱ μετ’ αὐτοῦ πάντεσ ἀπὸ τῆσ πλησίον πηγῆσ, γενομένων δὲ τῶν ὁρκίων συναγαγόντα τοὺσ μεθ’ ἑαυτοῦ διδόναι τῷ μὴ πιόντι τὴν βασιλείαν· (Plutarch, Lycurgus, chapter 2 1:2)
  • ταύτην ἐμοῦ θανόντοσ, εἴπερ εὐσεβεῖν βούλει, πατρῴων ὁρκίων μεμνημένοσ, προσθοῦ δάμαρτα, μηδ’ ἀπιστήσῃσ πατρί· (Sophocles, Trachiniae, episode 7:3)
  • καὶ τήνδ’ ἀκούεισ ὁρκίων ἐμῶν θέμιν· (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode1)

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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