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ἔνορκ-ος , ον,
A.having sworn, bound by oath, ἔνορκόν τινα θέσθαι to bind one by oath, S.Ph.811; “ἔ. λαμβάνειν τὸν Ἀθηναίων δῆμον” Aeschin.3.90, cf. 2.116, Arist.Rh.1396b19: c. dat. pers., “ἔ. οὐδενί” S.Ph.72.
2. = ἔνσπονδος, included in a treaty, Th.2.72.
II. that whereto one is sworn, “θεῶν ἔ. δίκη” S.Ant. 369 (lyr.); “ἔνορκον [εἶμεν] τοῖς ἐπιϝοίκοις μἠποστᾶμεν” IG9(1).334.11 (V B.C.); παρακαταθήκην ἔνορκον εἰληφὼς παρὰ τῶν νόμων, of the jurors, D.25.11; “ἔ. προσφώνησις” Stud.Pal.22.184.88 (ii A. D.); “ἔνορκόν τι καταστῆσαι” Aeschin.2.176; “τῷ μὴ βουλομένῳ μὴ εἶναι ἔνορκον συμμαχεῖν” X.HG6.3.18; of a decree, Rev.Ét.Gr.24.415 (Itanos, ii B. C.); ἔνορκον ποιεῖσθαι to bind oneself by oath, Pl.Phd.89c; ἔνορκον ἐποίσει τὴν ψῆφον, Lat. juratus feret sententiam, D.H.7.45. Adv. “-κως” LXX To.8.20, Ath.6.274e, Poll.1.39.
b. consecrated by oath, “λίθος” Pl. Lg.843a.
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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    • Aeschines, On the Embassy, 116
    • Aeschines, On the Embassy, 176
    • Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon, 90
    • Demosthenes, Against Aristogiton 1, 11
    • Plato, Laws, 843a
    • Plato, Phaedo, 89c
    • Sophocles, Antigone, 369
    • Sophocles, Philoctetes, 72
    • Thucydides, Histories, 2.72
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 6.3.18
    • Sophocles, Philoctetes, 811
    • Old Testament, Tobit, 8.20
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 7.45
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