ὁροθεσία
ῥᾷον ὀμνύναι κἀπιορκεῖν ἢ ὁτιοῦν → they thought less of swearing and perjuring themselves than of anything else in the world
English (LSJ)
ἡ,
A fixing of boundaries: in pl., limitations, boundaries:— Inscr.Prien.42.8 and 12 (ii B. C.), Act.Ap.17.26 (pl.), BGU889.17 (ii A.D.). II ὁρο-θέσια, τά, Gal.19.349, Hsch., etc.: gloss on οὖροι, Gloss.Hdt.ap.SteinHerodotus 2p.468: the sg. ὁροθέσιον (boundary) occurs in Petr.Patr.p.433 D.
German (Pape)
[Seite 385] ἡ, das Festsetzen der Gränze (?); – ὁροθέσια, τά, die Gränzen selbst, VLL., die erkl. τὰ χωρίζοντα τἡν γῆν.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ὁροθεσία: ἡ, τὸ τιθέναι ὅρια· ἐν τῷ πληθ., σύνορα, ὅρια, Πράξ. Ἀποστ. Ιζ΄, 26· - οὕτω καὶ ὁροθέσια, τά, Γαλην. 19. 348· «ὁροθέσια· τὰ χωρίζοντα τὴν γῆν» Ἡσύχ., κλ.· τὸ ἑνικὸν ὁροθέσιον ἀπαντᾷ ἐν Petri Patr. Exc. σ. 135, 11 Nieb.
English (Strong)
from a compound of the base of ὅριον and a derivative of τίθημι; a limit-placing, i.e. (concretely) boundary-line: bound.
English (Thayer)
ὁροθεσίας, ἡ (from ὁροθετης; and this from ὅρος (a boundary; see ὅριον), and τίθημι);
a. properly, a setting of boundaries, laying down limits.
b. a definite limit; plural bounds, Winer's Grammar, 25).)
