ὅρκος: Difference between revisions

|mdlsjtxt=[[ὅρκος]], ὁ,<br /><b class="num">I.</b> the [[object]] by [[which]] one swears, the [[witness]] of an [[oath]], as the [[Styx]] [[among]] the gods, Hom., etc.:—[[hence]],<br /><b class="num">2.</b> an [[oath]], Hom., etc.; [[ὅρκος]] [[θεῶν]] an [[oath]] by the gods, Od.; ὅρκον [[ὀμόσαι]] to [[swear]] an [[oath]], Hom., etc.; ὅρκον ἐπιορκεῖν to [[take]] a false [[oath]], Aeschin.; ὅρκον διδόναι καὶ δέξασθαι to [[tender]] an [[oath]] to [[another]] and [[accept]] the [[tender]] from him, Hdt., [[attic]]; ὅρκον ἀποδιδόναι to [[take]] an [[oath]], ἀπολαμβάνειν to [[tender]] it, Dem.; so, ὅρκον διδόναι καὶ λαμβάνειν Arist.; ὅρκοις τινὰ καταλαμβάνειν to [[bind]] one by oaths, Thuc.; ὅρκῳ ἐμμένειν to [[abide]] by it, Eur.; εἶπαι ἐπ' ὅρκου to say on [[oath]], Hdt.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> [[Ὅρκος]], personified, son of [[Ἔρις]], a [[divinity]], who punishes the [[perjured]], Hes., etc. [[ὅρκος]] was orig. equiv. to [[ἕρκος]], as [[ὁρκάνη]] to [[ἑρκάνη]], from [[ἔργω]], [[εἴργω]], [[properly]], that [[which]] restrains from doing a [[thing]].]