Ancient Greek

Verb

μᾰρτῠρέω • ‎(marturéō)

1. I bear witness, testify, give evidence
   • 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, First Tetralogy 2.7
   1. (with dative of person) I bear witness to (i.e. in favour of)
      • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 594
      • 413 BCE, Euripides, Ion 532
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.18
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.29
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.94
   2. (with accusative) I testify to
      • 470 BCE, Aeschylus, The Suppliants 797
      • 620 BCE – 500 BCE, Alcaeus of Mytilene, Collected Works 102
      • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 6.21
      • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 13.108
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 244.d
      • 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 515
   3. (with infinitive) I testify that
      • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1184
      • 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 8.46
      • 428 BCE, Euripides, Hippolytus 977
      • 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1265
      • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 422
   4. (with cognate accusative) I bear false witness, give hearsay evidence
      • 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Collected Works 1.46
      • 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, On the Choreutes 16
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Evergus and Mnesibulus 1
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Eubulides 4
      • 342 BCE – 291 BCE, Diphilus, Collected Works 32.16
      • 4th century BC, Isaeus, Hagnias 25
      • 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Collected Works 13.6
      • 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Collected Works 19.4
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Eryxias 399.b
2. (astrology) I am in aspect with
   • 90 CE – 168 CE, Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos 123

Inflection

Derived terms

Related terms

• μᾰρτύρημᾰ ‎(martúrēma)
• μᾰρτύρησῐς ‎(martúrēsis)
• μᾰρτῠρητέον ‎(marturētéon)
• μᾰρτῠρητικός ‎(marturētikós)

References

• μαρτυρέω in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μαρτυρέω in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «μαρτυρέω» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• μαρτυρέω in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G3140”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979