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ὅρκος

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὅρκος ὅρκου

Structure: ὁρκ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: o(/rkos was orig. equiv. to e(/rkos, as o(rka/nh to e(rka/nh, from e)/rgw, ei)/rgw, properly, that which restrains from doing a thing.

Sense

  1. the object by which one swears, the witness of an oath, as the Styx was among the gods, or as Zeus was among mortals
  2. an oath

Declension

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

  • μετὰ πόσησ ἀκριβείασ ἔκρινασ τοὺσ υἱούσ σου, ὧν τοῖσ πατράσιν ὅρκουσ καὶ συνθήκασ ἔδωκασ ἀγαθῶν ὑποσχέσεων̣ (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 12:21)
  • ἐνίκησε δὲ τὸν ὄχλον οὐκ ἰσχύϊ τοῦ σώματοσ, οὐχ ὅπλων ἐνεργείᾳ, ἀλλὰ λόγῳ τὸν κολάζοντα ὑπέταξεν, ὅρκουσ πατέρων καὶ διαθήκασ ὑπομνήσασ. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 18:22)
  • ἀλλ’ οὐ γελάσεισ κατ’ ἐμοῦ τοῦτον τὸν γέλωτα, οὔτε τοὺσ ἱεροὺσ τῶν προγόνων περὶ τοῦ φυλάξαι τὸν νόμον ὅρκουσ οὐ παρήσω, (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 5:28)
  • μετὰ Λυκίσκον ἔστιν ἄρχων Πυθόδοτοσ, ἐφ’ οὗ τὴν ὀγδόην τῶν Φιλιππικῶν δημηγοριῶν διέθετο πρὸσ τοὺσ Φιλίππου πρέσβεισ, ἧσ ἐστιν ἀρχή ὦ ἄνδρεσ Ἀθηναῖοι, οὐκ ἔστιν, ὅπωσ αἱ αἰτίαι, καὶ τὸν κατ’ Αἰσχίνου συνετάξατο λόγον, ὅτε τὰσ εὐθύνασ ἐδίδου τῆσ δευτέρασ πρεσβείασ τῆσ ἐπὶ τοὺσ ὁρ́κουσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ad Ammaeum, chapter 10 2:8)
  • ὥστε, ὦ ἄνδρεσ δικασταί, δικαίωσ ἂν καὶ τοὺσ ἡμετέρουσ ὁρ́κουσ πιστοτέρουσ νομίζοιτε ἢ τοὺσ τούτων λόγουσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 17 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. an oath

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