Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Amphiorkia

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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.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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