Amphiorkia
or
Amphomosia (
ἀμφιορκία or
ἀμφωμοσία). The oath which was taken, both by the plaintiff and the
defendant, before the trial of a cause in the Athenian courts, that they would speak the
truth. In the
ἀνάκρισις, or preliminary investigation, it
was called
διωμοσία.