The corpus record

ὁρκ-ωμοτέω

orkomoteo

take an oath

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Where it lives

Seven Against Thebes 1 · 1.99/10k
Eumenides 1 · 1.91/10k
Suppliants 1 · 1.42/10k
Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k

What it meant

ὁρκ-ωμοτέω · hork-ōmoteō — LSJ

take an oath, swear by, made oath by

take an oath, Ar. Fr. 96 ; τινι to one, A. Eu. 764 ; πάσης ὑπὲρ γῆς Δαναϊδῶν ὁρκωμοτῶν E. Supp. 1190 ; ἐπί τινι Luc. Tox. 50 ; κατὰ σφαγίων Plu. Pyrrh. 6 : folld. by aor. inf., θεοὺς ὁ. τὸ μήτε δρᾶσαι . . swear by the gods that they did it not, S. Ant. 265: by fut. inf., Ἄρη . . ὡρκωμότησαν . . λαπάξειν ἄστυ made oath by Ares that they would . . , A. Th. 46.

In the wild

ὁρκωμοτήσας · horkōmotēsas Aeschylus, Eumenides 762–766
ὡρκωμότησαν · hōrkōmotēsan Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 42–48
ὁρκωμοτεῖν · horkōmotein Euripides, Suppliants *)aqh/na (DIORISIS sentence 697)
ὁρκωμοτεῖν · horkōmotein Sophocles, Antigone 264–267

Where it came from

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