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Διώμοτος · bound by oath, oath-bound (δ 1236) · Suda

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Near δ1236

δ1232I am pursuing you
δ1233enormous
δ1234oath-taking
δ1235diomosia and antomosia, preliminary oath and counter-oath
δ1236bound by oath, oath-bound
δ1237s/he took the oath
δ1238Dion, Dio
δ1239Dion, Dio
δ1240Dion, Dio

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Διώμοτος

bound by oath, oath-bound

Translated by Antonella Ippolito7 Feb 2005Vetting: high8 revisions

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2 notes · 41 words

Translation

"[He] ordered the orators, bound by oath, to join the litigants".¹ That is, [he ordered] the advocates [to do so].
Simocatta used the word diwmosi/a in reference to an oath when he says: "the Moors made a diwmosi/a against the Romans".²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Διώμοτος. διωμότους συνίστασθαι τοῖς διαφερομένοις ἐκέλευε τοὺς ῥήτορας. τουτέστι τοὺς συνηγόρους. ὅτι ὁ Σιμόκατος ἐπὶ τοῦ ὅρκου ἐχρήσατο τῷ διωμοσία λέγων· οἱ Μαυρούσιοι διωμοσίαν κατὰ τῶν Ῥωμαίων ἐποιήσαντο.

Betacode

*diw/motos. diwmo/tous suni/stasqai toi=s diaferome/nois e)ke/leue tou\s r(h/toras. toute/sti tou\s sunhgo/rous. o(/ti o( *simo/katos e)pi\ tou= o(/rkou e)xrh/sato tw=| diwmosi/a le/gwn: oi( *maurou/sioi diwmosi/an kata\ tw=n *(rwmai/wn e)poih/santo.

Notes (2)

cf. generally delta 1234, delta 1235, delta 1237.
1Procopius, Secret History 26.2 (web address 1), discussing some of Justinian's reforms of the court system, such as the abolition of the rank of professional pleader (r(h/twr; cf. Secret History 20.17, web address 2) and the deprivation of the rhetors of their prizes. According to the direct transmission, the passage reads tou\s diaferome/nous; consequently, the interpretation is "[Justinian] ordered that those of the rhetors who were at variance with one another should face one another in the court, after oath"; tou\s r(h/toras seems to have been added in the Suda. Adler’s apparatus does not mention any disagreement among the manuscripts about the dative toi=s diaferome/nois, which makes the general sense of the sentence dramatically change: "join the litigants", that is, as Gaisford interpreted it, patrocinium suscipere. ↩
2Theophylact Simocatta, Histories 7.6.6. The Moors, a people dwelling in the regions of Africa between Ethiopia and Mauretania, are also mentioned by Strabo 17.3.2; Plutarch, Sertorius 7; Procopius, History of the Wars of Justinian 3.25.3-9; 4.6.10-14, 7.3, 11.16-20, 13.26-29; and generally mu 298.

References

Procopius of Caesarea, Opera, recognovit J. Haury, vol. III: Historia quae diditur Arcana, Leipzig, Teubner 1962 (reprint)
Theophylactus Simocatta, Historiae, ed. C. de Boor, Stuttgart, Teubner, 1887

External resources

Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu

Linked from2 entries

δ1165Διόμνυταιaffirms, asseverates[Meaning he/she/it] swears.
δ1237Διώμνυτοs/he took the oathImperfect tense.

Neighbouring entries

δ1234Διωμοσίαoath-taking δ1235Διωμοσία καὶ ἀντωμοσίαdiomosia and antomosia, preliminary oath and counter-oath δ1236Διώμοτοςbound by oath, oath-bound δ1237Διώμνυτοs/he took the oath δ1238ΔίωνDion, Dio

Revision history8 revisions · last 20 May 2024

20 May 2024added links — Ronald Allen
11 Nov 2015cosmetics — David Whitehead
16 Nov 2014coding — Catharine Roth
13 Jul 2012more keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
20 Dec 2005typo — Catharine Roth
8 Feb 2005betacode — Catharine Roth
8 Feb 2005modied translation; added x-refs and another keyword; extensive cosmetics — David Whitehead
7 Feb 2005Revised — Antonella Ippolito
7 Feb 2005Translated — Antonella Ippolito

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Διώμοτος (Adler number delta 1236), trans. Antonella Ippolito, 7 Feb 2005. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/delta/1236

Translation by Antonella Ippolito for Suda On Line, revised by Ronald Allen, David Whitehead, Catharine Roth, Antonella Ippolito, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Original on SOL ↗