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νομοθετ-έω

nomotheteo

frame laws

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Where it lives

Against Alcibiades 2 1 · 16.64/10k
Against Timocrates 23 · 15.76/10k
Laws 118 · 11.44/10k
Busiris 3 · 10.92/10k
Areopagiticus 3 · 6.56/10k
Against Leptines 7 · 6.2/10k
Against Dionysodorus 2 · 6.13/10k
Against Aristogeiton 2 1 · 5.95/10k
Against Stephanus 2 1 · 5.43/10k
Apology 1 · 5/10k
Against Phaenippus 1 · 4.51/10k
Constitution of the Lacedaemonians 2 · 4.11/10k

Densest 12 of 41 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

νομοθετ-έω · nomothet-eō — LSJ

frame laws, frame laws for oneself, to be furnished with laws, have a code of laws

frame laws, Lys. 15.9, Pl. R. 534d, etc.; Λακεδαιμονίοις X. Ap. 15; ταῖς μοναρχίαις Isoc. 2.8; περί τινος Id. 11.40; περί τινων Arist. Pol. 1294a37; ὑπὲρ ὅλου τοῦ ἐμπορίου D. 56.48:—Med., frame laws for oneself, Pl. R. 398b, Tht. 177e, etc.:—Pass., of a state, to be furnished with laws, have a code of laws, Id. Lg. 701d, 962e, cf. Ep.Hebr. 7.11.

II ordain by law, enact, to be ordained by law, it has been, ordained by law

ordain by law, τι Pl. Lg. 628d, R. 417b; ἐναντία τῷ ὅρκῳ τοῦ δήμου ν. And. 4.3: c. inf., enact, τῶν ζῴων ἐστὶν ἃ σέβεσθαι ἐνομοθέτησε Isoc. 11.26, cf. POxy. 1119.16 (iii A.D.): —in Med., Pl. Lg. 736c:—Pass., to be ordained by law, Ep.Hebr. 8.6; τὰ καλῶς νενομοθετημένα ἡμῖν ὑπὸ τῶν βασιλέων OGI 329.13 (Aegina, ii B.C.), cf. Luc. Pr.Im. 18: impers., περὶ ταῦτα οὕτω σφι νενομοθέτηται it has been so ordained by law, Hdt. 2.41; ν. καλὸν [εἶναι] τὸ χαρίζεσθαι Pl. Smp. 182b; ἦν νενομοθετημένον Arist. P

In the wild

νομοθετῆσαι · nomothetēsai Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora AHys.Α (DIORISIS sentence 1848)
νομοθετήσας · nomothetēsas Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..11 (DIORISIS sentence 130)
ἐνομοθέτησεν · enomothetēsen Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..8 (DIORISIS sentence 106)
νομοθετοῦσιν · nomothetousin Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 2
νενομοθέτηται · nenomothetētai Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 7
νομοθετούσης · nomothetousēs Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1094b (DIORISIS sentence 19)

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