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ἀπόμνυ_μι or ἀπομνημον-ύω (Pi.N.7.70), fut. -ομοῦμαι: 3 impf.
A.“ἀπώμνυ” Od. 2.377:—take an oath away from, i.e. swear that one will not do a thing, ἡ δ᾽ αὐτίκ᾽ ἀπώμνυεν ib.10.345, cf. 12.303, 18.58; μέγαν ὅρκον ἀπόμνυib.2.377; ἀπώμοσα καρτερὸν ὅρκον ib.10.381.
2. deny onoath, Hdt.2.179,6.63; “ἀ. Ζηνὸς σέβας” S.Ph.1289; “ταῦτ᾽ ἀ. μοι τοὺς θεούς” Ar.Nu,1232, cf.Eq.424; also ἀ. τἀναντία κατὰ τῆς θυγατρός swear to the contrary by . ., D.29.52: freq. c. μή et inf., “ἀ. μὴ ὄρσαι” Pi. l.c., cf. E.Cyc.266; “τοὺς θεοὺς ἀ. ἦ μὴν μὴ εἰδέναι . .” Pl.Lg.936e, cf. X.Cyr.6.1.3; ἀ μηδὲ ὀβολόν (sc. ἔχειν) Id.Smp.3.8; “ἀ. ὡς οὐκ εἴρηκε” D.21.120.
3. c.acc., ἀ. υἱόν deny, disown a son on oath, And. 1.127:— Med., ἀπωμόσατο τὴν ἀρχήν, = Lat. eieravit, solemnly laid it down, Plu.Cic.19.
II. strengthd. for ὄμνυμι, take a solemn oath, ἦ μήν . . Th.5.50 codd.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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