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μαρτύρομαι [υ_], fut. μαρτυ^ροῦμαι （δια-) LXX Ps.80(81).9 (cod. Alex.): aor.
A.“ἐμαρτυ_ράμην” Pl.Phlb.47d, App.BC2.47:—call to witness, invoke, c. acc. pers., Antipho 1.29, S.OC813, etc.; esp. of the gods, Ἄρτεμιν, γαῖαν καὶ θεούς, E.Hipp.1451, Ph.626; δαίμονας, ὡς . . Id.Med.619: c. acc. et inf., “ὑμᾶς δ᾽ ἀκούειν ταῦτ᾽ ἐγὼ μαρτύρομαι” A.Eu. 643, etc.: c. part., μαρτύρομαι τυπτόμενος I call you to witness that . . , Ar.Av.1031, cf. E.HF858 (troch.).
2. c. acc. rei, call one to witness a thing, Hdt. 1.44, Ar.Ra.528, Pl.932.
3. protest, asseverate, μ. ὅτι . . Id.Nu.1222, Th.6.80; “ταῦτα” Pl. l.c.: abs., μαρτύρομαι I protest, Ar.Ach.926, Lys. 3.15.
4. c. acc. pers. et gen. rei, οἱ δὲ τῆς τῶν θεῶν . . παραγωγῆς τὸν Ὅμηρον μ. ὅτι . . cite Homer as a witness of . . , Pl. R.364d; “ἐμαυτὸν μ. τῆς φιλοτιμίας” App. l. c.; μ. τινὶ ὅτι . . Ep.Gal.5.3; τοὺς ἀποστάντας μ. τῆς ἐπιορκίας remind them of . . , App.BC5.129.
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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