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μάρτυ^ς , ὁ, ἡ, Cret., Epid. μαῖτυς Leg.Gort.1.13, al., IG42(1).42, Cret. also μαίτυρς GDI4998 v ii; gen. μάρτυ^ρος, acc. -υ^ρα Hes.Op. 371, etc., formed from μάρτυρ (q. v.), exc. acc.
A.“μάρτυ^ν” Simon. 84. 4, Men. 1034, Plu. 2.49a; dat. pl. μάρτυ^σι (but μάρτυρσι prob. in Hippon. 51):—witness (not in Hom.), Hes. l.c., h.Merc.372, Thgn. 1226, etc.; “ἄμμιν μάρτυς ἔστω Ζεύς” Pi.P.4.167, cf. A.Eu.664; “ἁμέραι δ᾽ ἐπίλοιποι μ. σοφώτατοι” Pi.O.1.34; “τούτων μάρτυρας καλῶ θεούς” S. Tr.1248, cf. E.Ph.491; “μάρτυρα θέσθαι τινά” Id.Supp.261; “μ. θεοὺς ποιεῖσθαι” Th.4.87, etc.; “μάρτυρι χρῆσθαί τινι” Arist.Rh.1375b30; μάρτυρας παρέχεσθαι produce witnesses, Pl.Grg.471e, cf. D.27.51, etc.; “μάρτυρες παρίστανται” X.Cyr.1.6.16; μάρτυρα παράγεσθαι, μάρτυρας ἐπάγεσθαι, Pl.Lg.836c, R.364c; “δικάζει ταῦτα μαρτύρων ὅπο” A.Supp. 934; “μαρτύρων ἐναντίον” Antipho 1.28, Ar.Ec.448; “ἐν μάρτυσι” Pl.Smp. 175e; τί δεῖται μάρτυρος; Id.R.340a.
II. martyr, Apoc.2.13, etc.
III. Astrol., in aspect, “μάρτυρες ἀλλήλων” Man. 4.451. (Cf. μάρτυρ, μάρτυρος.)
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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