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ἐπόμνυ_μι or -ύω (v. infr. 3), fut.
A.“ἐπομοῦμαι” Ar.Lys.211: aor. ἐπώμοσα: —swear after, swear in accordance (with an order given), “οἱ δ᾽ ἄρα πάντες ἐπώμνυον” Od.15.437, cf. Th.2.5.
2. c. acc. cogn., “ἐπίορκον ἐπώμοσε” Il.10.332 ; ὅς κεν τὴν ἐπίορκον..ἐπομόσσῃ whosoever swear a false oath by it [the Styx], Hes.Th.793, cf. Emp.115.4 ; also ἐ. ὅρκον τινί swear an oath at his dictation, Plu.Cic.23:—Med., “ἐ. ὅρκον” Stud.Pal.20.122.16 (v A. D.), etc.
3. c. acc. pers., “ἐ. ἥλιον” to swear by.., Hdt.1.212 ; “ἐ. τινά θεῶν” E.IT747, cf. Ar.Nu.1227, Schwyzer 721.5 (iv B. C.), etc. ; “ἐ. θεοὺς ὡς..” E.Ph.433 ; “ἐπομνύω σοι τὴν ἐμὴν καὶ σὴν φιλίαν” X.Cyr.6.4.6 ; ἐ. τὴν σὴν (sc. Καίσαρος) “τύχην” J.AJ16.10.8 : c. dupl. acc., “μή τι θεοὺς ἐπίορκον ἐπόμνυθι” Thgn.1195:—Med., ἐπόμνυμαι Δία f.l. in Jusj. ap. D.24.151 ; “ἐπόμνυσθαι κατά τινος” Luc. Icar.9, Cal.18.
4. c. acc. rei, swear to a thing, Ar.Lys.211 : abs., Pl.Lg.917b.
5. c. inf., swear that, “ἐ. θεοὺς μὴ πρότερον ἐκδύσεσθαι..” Hdt.5.106, cf. E.IT974, Pl.Criti.120a:—Med., ἐπωμόσατο..εἰδέναι Αἰσχίνην Test. ap. D.18.137 ; ἐπομνύειν ἦ μήν c. pres. inf., Plu.Alex.47 ; Ep., ἐ. ἦ μέν.. c. fut. inf., A.R.2.715, etc.; “ἐ. ὅτι..” Plu.Per.30.
6. abs. in aor. part., with another Verb, ἐπομόσας εἶπε he said with an oath, Hdt.8.5, X.An.7.8.2.
II. Med., = ὑπόμνυσθαι (nisi hoc leg.), Ar.Pl.725.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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