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νόμιμος

nomimos

conformable to custom, usage

Appears 110 times across Plato's dialogues.

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νόμιμος, η, ον, also ος, ον Isoc. 2.22, Arist. Mu. 400b24:—A. conformable to custom, usage, or law, ν. ὅρκος Lex ap.And. 1.98; ν. ἔρωτες Gorg. Fr. 6 D.; ἔργα δίκαια καὶ ν. Democr. 174; legitimate, ν. παῖδες E. Ph. 815 (lyr.): hence, customary, prescriptive, φῶς ib.345 (lyr.), etc.; οἱ ν. θεοί Pl. Lg. 954a; ἡ ἐπίδεσις ἡ ν. Hp. Art. 14; νόμιμόν [ἐστί] τινι ποιεῖν τι X. Cyr. 8.8.8; ν. τινὰ δεδέσθαι Id. Mem. 1.2.49. 2. observant of law, Choeril. 3, Antipho 2.2.12, Archyt. ap. Stob. 4.5.61; ν. καὶ κόσμιοι Pl. Grg. 504d; ν. πόλις Isoc.l.c. II. νόμιμα, τά, usages, customs, ἄλλα ἄλλοισιν νόμιμα, σφετέραν δʼ αἰνεῖ δίκαν ἕκαστος Pi. Fr. 215, cf. A. Th. 334 (lyr.), Hdt. 2.79; ν. Δωρικά, Χαλκιδικά, Th. 6.4,5; τὰ κοινὰ τῶν Ἑλλήνων ν. Id. 3.59; almost, = νόμοι, ἄγραπτα ν. S. Ant. 455; ν. θεῶν E. Supp. 19; τὰ εἰωθότα ν. Pl. Phdr. 265a; ἄγραφα ν. Id. Lg. 793a, D. 23.70; τὰ περὶ τοὺς θεοὺς ν., τὸ πρὸς τοὺς πολεμίους ν., X. Mem. 4.6.4, Cyr. 1.6.34; ν. βαρβαρικά, title of treatise by Aristotle: rare in sg., τὸ πάντων ν. Emp. 135.1. 2. legal rights, ν. καὶ φιλάνθρωπα BGU 1074.2 (i A.D.); process of law, τοῖς ν. χρῆσθαι Mitteis Chr. 88 i 12 (ii A.D.); ἄνευ νομίμων ἀπωθεῖσθαι to be illegally ejected, PFay. 124.18 (ii A.D.); εἴργεσθαι τῶν ν., i.e. ἱερῶν καὶ ἀγορᾶς, of persons accused of murder, Antipho 6.34, Arist. Ath. 57.2. 3. funeral rites (cf. νομίζω I.1), Din. 2.8; τιμᾶν τινας ἐσθήμασί τε καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις ν. Th. 3.58. III. Adv. -μως Antipho 5.14; κοσμίως καὶ ν. Pl. Smp. 182a; ν. ἀποθανεῖν in a natural way, Lys. Fr. 53.4; οἱ ν. ἀθλοῦντες, πεπαιδευμένοι, professional athletes, physicians, Gal. 6.488, 17(1).26, cf. 8.171: Comp. -ώτερον X. Mem. 3.5.20: Sup. -ώτατα D.C. 78.13.
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