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ὑπωμοσία , ἡ,
A.oath taken in court to delay proceedings (v. “ὑπόμνυμι” 11),
1. oath or affidavit showing good ground for the absence of a party to a suit, application for delay, D.21.84 (pl.), v. Harp. s. v.; “ὑπωμοσίαν παραδέχεσθαι” Hyp.Eux.7; cf. ἀνθυπόμνυμι.
2. oath taken by the prosecutor in a γραφὴ παρανόμων (v. “παράνομος” 11.2), with the effect of suspending the proposed law or decree, ἐᾶν [τὸν νόμον] ἐν ὑ. to leave it in the condition caused by the ὑπωμοσία, to let it drop, D.18.103; cf. AB313, Poll.8.56.
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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