Oath

For come, suppose someone should indict him for the usurpation of the rights of citizenship, declaring that my father denied on oath that this man was his son;

—he went to meet her before the arbitrator, and Plangon, contrary to all that she had agreed to do, accepted the challenge, and swore in the Delphinium an oath which was the very opposite of her former one, as most of you know well;

Many meetings took place about these matters, and my father declared that he would never be convinced that these men were his children, and finally Plangon, men of the jury (for the whole truth shall be told you), having in conjunction with Menecles laid a snare for my father, and deceived him by an oath that among all mankind is held to be the greatest and most awful, agreed that, if she were pai …

and he complains of the oath which I took before filing the inventory, asserting that I undertook to report all the rest of my property except that in the mining-works;

But you know the law, men of the jury, for you enacted it, that which expressly makes this provision, that those tendering exchanges to one another, when they under oath report their inventories, shall swear also the following oath:

For although he had sworn on the eleventh of the month Boedromion to give me a true and just inventory of his property, and the law expressly declares that the inventory shall be given within three days after one takes the oath, he came up to me in front of the courtrooms with Polyeuctus of Crioa and some others, and begged me, first to have a conference with him regarding a settlement, assuring m …

On a fifth, they say, the Erinyes assisted at the birth of Horcus (Oath) whom Eris (Strife) bore to trouble the forsworn.

## The Rule of Oaths

He who, for fourteen days, does not suffer a terrible calamity from the king or from fate, is to be known as pure in his oath.

Where an act is prescribed but the limb of the doer is not specified, the right hand should be known as the one that accomplishes the acts.

114 // He whom the blazing fire does not burn, whom the waters do not cause to rise up, and who does not quickly meet with misfortune—he is to be known as pure in his oath.

Oaths are remembered to have been taken even by the gods and by the sages.

He whom the blazing fire does not burn, whom the waters hold up within them, he overcomes that accusation;

The seven sages, having come together for the sake of a lotus, swore an oath to Indra, without agitation, for their mutual purification.