ὅρκος, ὁ,
the object by which one swears, as the Styx among the gods, Στυγὸς ὕδωρ, ὅς τε μέγιστος ὅ. δεινότατός τε πέλει μακάρεσσι θεοῖσι [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.38, compare 2.755, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 400, 784, 805, “hymnus ad Cererem” 259, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 983b31 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; or as Zeus among mortals, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.167 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; so of things, ὅρκον δ᾽ ἐνοσφίσθης μέγαν, ἅλας τε καὶ τράπεζαν [[ 7th c.BC: Archilochus Lyricus 96; οἷς ἦν μέγιστος ὅ... κύων, ἔπειτα χήν 5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 231, compare “Placita Philosophorum” 1.3.8: hence, ] Refs 7th c.BC+]
__2 oath, mostly with epithet μέγας, καρτερός, [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus (see. below)] Refs 8th c.BC+], etc.; θεῶν ὅ. an oath by the gods, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.377; μακάρων ὅ. 10.299, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 647, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 657; ὅ. ἐκ θεῶν μέγας 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1284; ὅ. κατὰ τῶν.. ὀφθαλμῶν 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.153 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὅ. πλατύς a firm-based oath, [[ 5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 30.3 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὅρκον ὀμόσαι swear an oath, ὄμοσέν τε τελεύτησέν τε τὸν ὅ. [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.378, etc.; ὅ. ἀπώμνυ [prev. work] 377, compare 10.381; ἐπὶ δ᾽ ὅρκον ὀμεῖται 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 194; κατομόσαι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 790 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὅ. ἐπιορκῆσαι take a false oath, [[ 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.115, etc. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ὅρκου προστεθέντος when an oath is added, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 472, compare “El.” 47 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; δαίμονι τῷ Πλεισθενιδῶν ὅρκους θεμένη having made a sworn compact with.., [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1570 (_anapaest meter_); ὅ. ἀλλήλοις ποιοῦνται οἱ μὲν ἔφοροι ὑπὲρ τῆς πόλεως, βασιλεὺς δ᾽ ὑπὲρ ἑαυτοῦ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Respublica Lacedaemoniorum” 15.7; ὅρκους συνῆψαν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 1241, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of the person demanding the oath, ὅ. ἑλέσθαι τινός or τινί take it of him, i.e. make him swear, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.746, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.119 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὅρκους ἐπελάσαι and προσάγειν τινί lay oath upon a man, put him on his oath, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.146, 6.62, 74 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸν ὅ... ἐπάγειν.. Ὀποντίοις readminister the oath, [[ Inscriptiones Graecae 9(1).334.12 (_Locrian dialect_, 5th c.BC) ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὅρκους δοὺς καὶ δεξάμενος after tendering his oath to them and accepting theirs, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.23, compare “IG” 12.52.18, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 429, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 589, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 39.3 and 4; so ὅρκον διδόναι καὶ λαμβάνειν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1377a7, 8 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀποδοῦναι take it oneself, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.318, 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.74 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἀπολαμβάνειν administer or tender it, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 5.9, 18.25 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ὅρκους καὶ πίστιν ἀλλήλοις δότε swear to one another, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 1185, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.107 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὅρκοις καταλαβὼν τὰ τέλη having bound the authorities by oaths, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.86; ὅρκοις κατειλημμένους [prev. author] 1.9 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὅρκῳ ἐμμένειν abide by it, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 754; ὅ. τηρεῖν 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 239; παραβαίνειν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 286.7, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 332, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.318; ἐκβάντι τῶν ὅ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 183b; ἐκλιπεῖν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 1194; συγχέαι [prev. author] “Hipp.” 1063; ἐμπεδοῦν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.2.10: after ὅρκος] Refs 5th c.BC+] aorist, present, or future infinitive may refer to future time, ὤμοσα καρτερὸν ὅ., μὴ.. ἀναφῆναι [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.253 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐμεῦ δ᾽ ἕλετο μέγαν ὅ., μὴ πρὶν σοὶ ἐρέειν[[ [prev. work] 746; ὅρκους ἔδοσαν καὶ ἔλαβον, ἀποδοῦναι.., Ἀθηναίους δὲ μὴ πολεμεῖν.. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 1.3.9: with Preps., οὐκ αὔτως.., ἀλλὰ σὺν ὅρκῳ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.151; σὺν θεῶν ὅρκῳ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.3.12 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; εἶπαι ἐπ᾽ ὅρκου say on oath, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.11; κατὰ τοὺς ὅ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.4.54; opposed to παρ᾽ ὅρκον 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 13.83; παρὰ τοὺς ὅ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.5.41: proverbial, ὅρκους ἐγὼ γυναικὸς εἰς ὕδωρ γράφω 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 811; parodied by 5th c.BC: Philonides Comicus 7 ὅρκους δὲ μοιχῶν εἰς τέφραν.. γράφω,compare 4th c.BC: Xenarchus Comicus 6, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Μονόστιχοι - Fragmenta Comicorum Graecorum” 25. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]