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ὅρκ-ιος , ον, rarely α, ον E.Med. 208 (lyr.):—
A.belonging to an oath, i.e.
1. sworn, bound by oath, δικαστὰς ὁ. αἱρουμένη (so Casaub.) A.Eu.483 ; ὅ. λέγω I speak on oath, S. Ant.305, cf. OC1637: Comp., ὁρκιωτέραν δ᾽ ἤμην τὰν δώλαν the slave's oath shall carry the greater weight, Leg.Gort.2.15.
2. that which is sworn by, ὅ. θεοί the gods invoked at an oath, who watch over its fulfilment and punish its violation, E.Ph.481, cf. IT747 : in Prose, “θεοὶ οἱ ὅ.” Th.1.71,78 ; “οἱ ὅ. θ.” Aeschin.1.114 ; esp. “Ζεὺς ὅ.” S.Ph.1324, E. Hipp.1025, Arist.Mir.845b33, Paus.5.24.9sq., etc.; “ὁρκία Θέμις” E. Med. l.c. ; “φθιμένων σέβας ὅ.” AP7.351 (Diosc.); ξίφος ὅ. a sword sworn by, E.Ph.1677.
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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