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ὅρκ-ιος

orkios

belonging to an oath

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Where it lives

Phoenissae 2 · 2.07/10k
Oedipus at Colonus 2 · 1.93/10k
Eumenides 1 · 1.91/10k
Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k
History 2 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

ὅρκ-ιος · hork-ios — LSJ

belonging to an oath

belonging to an oath, i.e.

1 sworn, bound by oath, on oath, oath shall carry the greater weight

sworn, bound by oath, δικαστὰς ὁ. αἱρουμένη (so Casaub.) A. Eu. 483 ; ὅ. λέγω I speak on oath, S. Ant. 305, cf. OC 1637: Comp., ὁρκιωτέραν δʼ ἤμην τὰν δώλαν the slaveʼs oath shall carry the greater weight, Leg.Gort. 2.15.

2 that which is sworn by, invoked at an oath, sworn by

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. IT 747 : 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. 5.24.9 sq., etc.; ὁρκία Θέμις E. Med. l.c. ; φθιμένων σέβας ὅ. AP 7.351 (Diosc.); ξίφος ὅ. a sword sworn by, E. Ph. 1677.

In the wild

ὁρκίους · horkious Aeschylus, Eumenides 482–484
ὁρκίους · horkious Euripides, Phoenissae (DIORISIS sentence 247)
ὅρκιόν · horkion Euripides, Phoenissae (DIORISIS sentence 971)
ὅρκιος · horkios Sophocles, Antigone 304–305
ὁρκίαν · horkian Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1631–1632
ὅρκιος · horkios Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1636–1637

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Where it came from

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