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νόμ-ιμος , η, ον, also ος, ον Isoc.2.22, Arist.Mu.400b24:—
A.conformable to custom, usage, or law, ν. ὅρκος Lexap.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 δ᾽ 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” BGU1074.2 (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” 1.1), 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.
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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