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Ἐπίορκον ἀνώμοσεν · swore a false oath (ε 2500) · Suda

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ε2496admonished, corrected, made wise
ε2497chopping-block
ε2498on a razor
ε2499having vowed
ε2500swore a false oath
ε2501daily bread, essential bread
ε2502shelter
ε2503was falsely swearing, used to swear falsely
ε2504chose, oversaw

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Ἐπίορκον ἀνώμοσεν

swore a false oath

Translated by William Hutton29 Nov 2007Vetting: high5 revisions

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2 notes · 42 words

Translation

[Hektor] did not swear the incongruous utterance as a false oath willingly; instead [it was a false oath] because what he swore to was not about to come to pass.¹
"And [he] being especially careful [not] to be convicted of swearing falsely."²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἐπίορκον ἀνώμοσεν· οὐ τὸ ἔξωθεν ἐπιπεφωνημένον ἐπίορκον ὤμοσεν ἑκουσίως· ἀλλ' ἐπειδὴ οὐκ ἔμελλε τελειωθῆναι τὰ ὀμωμοσμένα. καὶ ἐπιορκίας ἁλῶναι μάλιστα φυλαττόμενος.

Betacode

*)epi/orkon a)nw/mosen: ou) to\ e)/cwqen e)pipefwnhme/non e)pi/orkon w)/mosen e(kousi/ws: a)ll' e)peidh\ ou)k e)/melle teleiwqh=nai ta\ o)mwmosme/na. kai\ e)piorki/as a(lw=nai ma/lista fulatto/menos.

Notes (2)

The headword phrase occurs in Homer, Iliad 10.332 (web address 1), except that Homer has e)pw/mosen ('swore to') instead of the otherwise unattested a)nw/mosen found here; a)pw/mosen, which would normally mean 'swore off' or 'refused to swear' was an alternative reading known to early commentators (and rejected by them; cf. Eustathius ad loc.), and it is conceivable that this could be behind the Suda's erroneous reading.
1A garbled paraphrase of comments from the scholia to the Homer passage (see above), based ultimately on Aristonicus. In the original, the "incongruous utterance" was not a reference to Hektor's oath, but to Homer's characterization of that oath as a false one. For the use of e)/cwqen ('outside') in the sense of 'incongruous' or 'out of character', see the Aristonicus' comments in the scholia to 10.240. ↩
2This additional comment, which occurs only in mss GIM (and cf. alpha 1382), apparently quotes or refers to a different passage altogether, and contains not the headword adjective but the related noun e)piorki/a ('perjury', 'swearing falsely'). Adler suggests Symeon Metaphrastes as a possible source.

External resources

Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu

Linked from1 entry

α1382Ἁλῶναιto be caught, to be convicted[Meaning] to be taken, to be bound. "And [he] guarding especially [against] being convicted of perjury."

Neighbouring entries

ε2498Ἐπὶ ξυροῦon a razor ε2499Ἐπιορκήσανταhaving vowed ε2500Ἐπίορκον ἀνώμοσενswore a false oath ε2501Ἐπιούσιος ἄρτοςdaily bread, essential bread ε2502Ἐπιωγήshelter

Revision history5 revisions · last 26 Sep 2017

26 Sep 2017cosmeticule — Catharine Roth
16 Oct 2012Revised — David Whitehead
17 Mar 2011tweaks — David Whitehead
30 Nov 2007x-ref; typo; other tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
29 Nov 2007tweaked betacode, supplied link, set status — Catharine Roth
29 Nov 2007Translated — William Hutton

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἐπίορκον ἀνώμοσεν (Adler number epsilon 2500), trans. William Hutton, 29 Nov 2007. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/epsilon/2500

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