μαρτύρομαι [ῡ],
future μαρτῠροῦμαι (δια-) [[ LXX.Psa.80(81).9 (codex 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor)] LXX+2nd c.AD+]: aorist ἐμαρτῡράμην [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 47d, 2nd c.AD: Appianus Historicus “Bella Civilia” 2.47 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—call to witness, invoke, with accusative person, [[ 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 1.29, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 813, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; especially of the gods, Ἄρτεμιν, γαῖαν καὶ θεούς, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 1451, “Ph.” 626 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; δαίμονας, ὡς.. [[ [prev. author] “Med.” 619 ] Refs]: with accusative et infinitive, ὑμᾶς δ᾽ ἀκούειν ταῦτ᾽ ἐγὼ μαρτύρομαι [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 643, etc.: with ] Refs 4th c.BC+]participle, μαρτύρομαι τυπτόμενος I call you to witness that.., [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1031, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 858 (troch.). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 with accusative of things, call one to witness a thing, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.44, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 528, “Pl.” 932. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 protest, asseverate, μ. ὅτι.. [[ [prev. author] “Nu.” 1222, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.80; ταῦτα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus [same place]: _absolutely_, μαρτύρομαι] Refs 5th c.BC+] I protest, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 926, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 3.15. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__4 with accusative person et genitive of things, οἱ δὲ τῆς τῶν θεῶν.. παραγωγῆς τὸν Ὅμηρον μ. ὅτι.. cite Homer as a witness of.., [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 364d; ἐμαυτὸν μ. τῆς φιλοτιμίας 2nd c.AD: Appianus Historicus ] Refs 5th c.BC+] [same place]; μ. τινὶ ὅτι.. [[ NT.Gal.5.3 ] NT]; τοὺς ἀποστάντας μ. τῆς ἐπιορκίας remind them of.., [[ 2nd c.AD: Appianus Historicus “Bella Civilia” 5.129. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]