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κατόμνυ_μι , aor. -ώμοσα E.Hel.835:—
A.confirm by oath, “τινί τι” Ar.Av. 444.
2. c.acc., call to witness, swear by, “τὴν ἐμὴν ψυχήν” E.Or.1517 (troch.), etc.; “κ. τὼ θεώ” Ar.Ec.158: c. dupl. acc., “ἁγνὸν ὅρκον σὸν κάρα κατώμοσα” E.Hel.l.c.: c.gen., “κ. τῆς κεφαλῆς” Anon. ap. Suid.
3. swear, c.inf., IG12(9).1273.1 (Eretria, vi B.C.).
II. Med. = Act., tender an oath, Antipho Soph.Oxy.1364.140, Arist.Rh.1377a16, PMagd.26.13 (iii B.C.); swear by, “τοὺς θεούς” Aristaenet.2.20: c.acc. et inf., D.39.4, cf. Paus.6.18.3.
2. c.dat., take an oath against, accuse on oath, Hdt.6.65 (gen. as v.l.): abs., ib.69.
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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