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ὀμόσας (omosas)

ὀμόσας is an Ancient Greek form of ὄμνυμι, meaning “swear, take an oath”. It is the aorist active participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 46 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 789: κάλλιστα δʼ ὀμόσασʼ, οὐ πολὺν σχήσω χρόνον,

Plutarch, Publicola 2.2: … διὰ σφαγίων ὁρκῶσαι τὴν βουλὴν καὶ προεῖπεν ἡμέραν, καταβὰς μάλα φαιδρὸς εἰς ἀγορὰν ὁ Οὐαλλέριος, καὶ πρῶτος ὀμόσας μηδὲν ἐνδώσειν μηδʼ ὑφήσεσθαι Ταρκυνίοις, ἀλλὰ πολεμήσειν κατὰ κράτος ὑπὲρ τῆς ἐλευθερίας, ἡδονήν τε τῇ βουλῇ …

All forms of ὄμνυμι (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.