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ψευδομαρτῠρ-ία

pseudomarturia · ἡ

false witness

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Where it lives

  • Matthew 2 · 1.12/10k
  • Politics 2 · 0.31/10k
  • Rhetoric 1 · 0.23/10k
  • Nicomachean Ethics 1 · 0.18/10k
  • Laws 1 · 0.1/10k

What it meant — LSJ

false witness, perjury, perjury

false witness, D. 41.16 codd.; ψευδομαρτυρίαν καταγνῶναί τινος Is. 12.6 codd.: ἐν ψευδομαρτυρίαις D. 57.53 codd.: but mostly in gen. pl., ψευδομαρτυριῶν διάκρισις Pl. Lg. 937b; -ιῶν δίκη Is. 3.6; κρίσεις Arist. Pol. 1263b21; -ιῶν ἑλεῖν τινα to convict, and ἁλῶναι to be convicted, of perjury, Is. 5.15, And. 1.7, Lys. 10.25, Aeschin. 1.85; ὀφλεῖν And. 1.74; -ιῶν ἐπισκήψασθαί τινι make allegation of perjury against one, D. 29.7; etc. (This form is perh. always corrupt in codd. of classical authors;

In the wild

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Where it came from

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