The corpus record

θεμῐτ-ός

themitos

allowed by the laws of God and men, righteous

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Where it lives

Tobias (cod. Vat. et Alex.) 1 · 1.9/10k
Phaedo 4 · 1.83/10k
Economics 3 · 1.69/10k
Epinomis 1 · 1.59/10k
Apology 1 · 1.14/10k
Oedipus Tyrannus 1 · 1.08/10k
Orestes 1 · 1.02/10k
Oedipus at Colonus 1 · 0.97/10k
Phaedrus 1 · 0.6/10k
Enneads 9 · 0.42/10k
Gorgias 1 · 0.38/10k
Discourses 1 · 0.13/10k

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

allowed by the laws of God and men, righteous

allowed by the laws of God and men, righteous, οὐ θεμιτόν [ἐστι],= οὐ θέμις, c. inf., οὐ θ. οἱ ἔφασκε πίνειν οἶνον h.Cer. 207, cf. Pi. P. 9.42, S. OT 993, OC 1758 (anap.), E. Or. 97, Theoc. 5.136, etc.: in Prose, Hdt. 3.37, 5.72, Pl. Ap. 30d, IG 2.1059.16, 14.1390; μηδὲ θεμιτὸν . . μηδʼ ὅσιον D. 21.148: in pl., τὰ μὴ θεμίτʼ ἦν [ἰδεῖν] dub. l. in Call. Lav.Pall. 78. Adv. -τῶς Phot., Suid.

In the wild

θεμιτὸν · themiton Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 4.6 (DIORISIS sentence 3353)
θεμιτὰ · themita Epictetus, Discourses 3.24 (DIORISIS sentence 5308)
θεμιτὸν · themiton Euripides, Orestes (DIORISIS sentence 51)
θεμιτόν · themiton Herodotus, Histories 3.37.3 (DIORISIS sentence 3144)
θεμιτὸν · themiton Herodotus, Histories 5.72.3 (DIORISIS sentence 5833)
θεμιτὸν · themiton Plato, Apology 30

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Where it came from

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