The corpus record

ὁρκόω

orkoo

make, swear, bind by oath, to be bound by oath

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Where it lives

For Polystratus 1 · 5.24/10k
Thesmophoriazusae 1 · 1.42/10k
Lysistrata 1 · 1.26/10k
On the False Embassy 2 · 0.87/10k
Hellenica 1 · 0.15/10k
History 2 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

ὁρκόω · horkoō — LSJ

make, swear, bind by oath, to be bound by oath

make one swear, bind by oath, Cratin. 366, Ar. Th. 276, Lys. 20.26 : folld. by fut. inf., ὁρκώσαντες πίστεσι μεγάλαις μηδὲν μνησικακήσειν Th. 4.74; ὁ. τινὰ ἦ μὴν ἐμμενεῖν Is. 5.33 ; ὁ. τινὰς εἴς τινα Plu. Galb. 10: c. acc. cogn., ὁ. τοὺς στρατιώτας τοὺς μεγίστους ὅρκους Th. 8.75, cf. Ar. Lys. 187:—Pass., to be bound by oath, Polem.Hist. 83 ; cf. ὁρκίζω.

2 administer an oath

abs., administer an oath, IG 1(2).39.36 : c. acc., Ἀθηναίους ib. 16, cf. SIG 45.20 (Halic., v B. C.).

In the wild

ὁρκώσεις · horkōseis Aristophanes, Lysistrata 187 (DIORISIS sentence 159)
ὥρκωςʼ · hōrkōsʼ Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae (DIORISIS sentence 279)
ὁρκοῦν · horkoun Demosthenes, On the False Embassy Concl.278 (DIORISIS sentence 982)
ὁρκοῦν · horkoun Demosthenes, On the False Embassy Narr.161 (DIORISIS sentence 538)
ὁρκοῦν · horkoun Lysias, For Polystratus 26 (DIORISIS sentence 77)
ὁρκώσαντες · horkōsantes Thucydides, History 4.74.2 (DIORISIS sentence 3000)

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