Ὅρκος

Where it lives

• Works and Days 2 · 3.47/10k
• Theogony 1 · 1.45/10k
• Oedipus at Colonus 1 · 0.97/10k
• Genesis 1 · 0.33/10k

What it meant

This reads as a proper name — a river, a person, a place — held only because the corpus attests it. It stands outside the library's subject, the vocabulary of the soul, so no lexicon entry is recorded.

In the wild

• Ὅρκον · Horkon Theogony 226–232
• Ὅρκος · Horkos Works and Days 219
• Ὅρκον · Horkon Works and Days 803–804
• Ὅρκος · Horkos Septuaginta, Genesis 26
• Ὅρκος · Horkos Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1766–1767

Where it came from

• Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. Ὅρκος (scan pp. 1154-1155; entry #4643).
• Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. Ὅρκος (scan pp. 837-838; entry #6024).
• Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Ὅρκος (scan pp. 1390-1391; entry #4327).

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