The corpus record

κατόμνῡμι

katomnumi

confirm by oath

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Where it lives

Against Boeotus 1 1 · 3.67/10k
Ecclesiazusae 2 · 2.62/10k
Frogs 2 · 2.2/10k
Helen 2 · 2.04/10k
Birds 2 · 1.88/10k
Iphigenia in Tauris 1 · 1.21/10k
Iphigenia in Aulis 1 · 1.12/10k
Orestes 1 · 1.02/10k
Rhetoric 1 · 0.23/10k
Histories 3 · 0.16/10k

What it meant

κατόμνῡμι · katomnymi — LSJ

confirm by oath

confirm by oath, τινί τι Ar. Av. 444.

2 call to witness, swear by

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

swear, c. inf., IG 12(9).1273.1 (Eretria, vi B.C.).

II tender an oath, swear by

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 take an oath against, accuse on oath

c. dat., take an oath against, accuse on oath, Hdt. 6.65 (gen. as v.l.): abs., ib. 69.

In the wild

κατόμοσόν · katomoson Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 379)
κατώμοσα · katōmosa Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 512)
κατώμοσας · katōmosas Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae (DIORISIS sentence 119)
κατώμοσεν · katōmosen Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae (DIORISIS sentence 27)
κατόμοσον · katomoson Aristophanes, Frogs 305
κατόμοσον · katomoson Aristophanes, Frogs 306

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Where it came from

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