The corpus record

θεμιστ-εύω

themisteuo

declare law and right

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Where it lives

Ion 1 · 1.09/10k
Gorgias 2 · 0.76/10k
Odyssey 2 · 0.23/10k
Laws 2 · 0.19/10k
Nicomachean Ethics 1 · 0.18/10k
Politics 1 · 0.15/10k

What it meant — LSJ

declare law and right, govern

declare law and right, c. dat., Μίνωα ἴδον . . θεμιστεύοντα νέκυσσιν Od. 11.569: c. gen., govern, θ. δὲ ἕκαστος παίδων ἠδʼ ἀλόχων 9.114.

II give by way of answer, oracle, deliver oracles

give by way of answer or oracle, νημερτέα βουλὴν πᾶσι θ. h.Ap. 253, cf. Lys. Fr. 23S.: abs., deliver oracles, E. Ion 371, D.S. 5.67, Plu. Alex. 14; τινα Orac. ap. Ael. VH 3.43; cf. θεμιτεύω.

In the wild

θεμιστεύων · themisteuōn Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1180a (DIORISIS sentence 3823)
θεμιστεύει · themisteuei Aristotle, Politics 1252b (DIORISIS sentence 24)
θεμιστεύοντά · themisteuonta Euripides, Ion 370 (DIORISIS sentence 254)
θεμιστεύοντα · themisteuonta Odyssey 11.569
θεμιστεύει · themisteuei Odyssey 9.114
θεμιστεύοντα · themisteuonta Plato, Gorgias 526

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