νομ-ή (nome)

Where it lives

Sophonias 2 · 16.89/10k
Nahum 1 · 10.83/10k
2 Timothy 1 · 8.34/10k
Joel 1 · 6.49/10k
Lamentationes 1 · 4.29/10k
Critias 2 · 4.05/10k
Amos 1 · 3.25/10k
For Phormio 1 · 2.55/10k
Jeremias 6 · 2.16/10k
Enchiridion 1 · 2.02/10k
Daniel (LXX) 1 · 0.95/10k
Machabaeorum II 1 · 0.87/10k

Densest 12 of 31 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

νομ-ή · nom-ē — LSJ

pasturage, herds

pasturage, ἀμφίβιον . . ἔδωκε ν. βατράχοισι Κρονίων Batr. 59; νομὰς νέμειν Hdt. 1.110; νομὰς νέμεσθαι ib. 78, cf. Pl. Lg. 679a, Arist. HA 575b4, etc.; ποιμνίων νομαί S. OT 761: in concrete sense, νομαὶ βοσκημάτων herds, X. An. 3.5.2.

2 food from pasturing

food from pasturing, Pl. Criti. 111c, etc.; αἷμα, ν. σαρκῶν Id. Ti. 80e; ἡ προσήκουσα ψυχῆς ν. Id. Phdr. 248b; ν. τῶν μελιττῶν τὸ θύμον Arist. HA 626 b20, cf. PCair.Zen. 520.10 (iii B.C.).

3 feeding, grazing

feeding, grazing, of herds, νομὴν ποιεῖσθαι, = νέμεσθαι, Arist. HA 596a14.

b spreading, spread, spreading ulcers

metaph., spreading, ν. πυρός Plb. 1.48.5, Plu. Alex. 35; freq. of sores, etc., ν. ποιεῖσθαι spread, Plb. 1.81.6; ὡς γάγγραινα, ν. ἕξει 2 Ep.Ti. 2.17, cf. Asclep. ap. Gal. 12.995; ἵσταται ἡ ν., of baldness, Id.ib. 411; νομαί spreading ulcers, Hp. Prorrh. 2.13, cf. Gal. 13.860, al.; ν. σαρκὸς θηριώδεις Plu. Superst. 2.165e.

II division, distribution, largess

division, distribution, Hdt. 2.52 (pl.), Pl. Prt. 321c, al.; of an inheritance, D. 36.12; ἡ πατρῴα (v.l. πατρῴων) ν. Arist. Pol. 1303b34; διεφθαρκὼς νομῇ χρημάτων τὸν δῆμον by largess of money, Aeschin. 2.76, cf. IG 5(1).1346 (Lacon.): in pl., = Lat. donativa, Hdn. 3.8.9, 5.5.8, 6.8.8.

2 paying out, distribution

paying out or distribution in bandaging, Heliod. ap. Orib. 48.25.1, Gal. 18 (2).741.

III longae possessionis praescriptio, injusta possessio, in possessionem mittere

in Law, = Lat. possessio, Wilcken Chr. 41 iii 20 (iii A.D.); μακρᾶς ν. παραγραφή, = longae possessionis praescriptio, Mitteis Chr. 374 i 3 (iii A.D.); ν. ἄδικος, = injusta possessio, PTeb. 286.7 (ii A.D.); ἐπὶ νομῆς πέμπειν, = in possessionem mittere, Just. Nov. 53.4.1.

IV

ἐν χειρῶν νομαῖς, = ἐν χειρῶν νόμῳ (cf. νόμος I.1 e), SIG 700.29 (Maced., ii B.C.).

In the wild

νομαῖς · nomais Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1131a (DIORISIS sentence 1609)
νομὴ · nomē Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1131b (DIORISIS sentence 1622)
νομὴν · nomēn Aristotle, Rhetoric 2
νομὴν · nomēn Demosthenes, For Phormio 21 (DIORISIS sentence 53)
νομὴν · nomēn Epictetus, Enchiridion 46 (DIORISIS sentence 339)
νομῶν · nomōn Herodotus, Histories 2.165.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2750)

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