The corpus record

θέσμιος

thesmios

fixed, settled, lawful

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Where it lives

Suppliant Maidens 1 · 2.07/10k
Eumenides 1 · 1.91/10k
Trojan Women 1 · 1.41/10k
Ajax 1 · 1.27/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k
Athenian Constitution 2 · 1.23/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant — LSJ

fixed, settled, lawful, fitting

fixed, settled, lawful, ἑορτὰ τέθμιος Pi. N. 11.27; τέθμιαι ὧραι Call. Ap. 87; θέσμια τάδε καὶ πάτρια Lex ap. Arist. Ath. 16.10; θέσμιον (sc. ἐστί) A. Ag. 1564 (lyr.); θέσμιόν ἐστι, = θέμις ἐστί, A.R. 2.12; fitting, θηρευτῆρσι σιγὴ τέθμιός ἐστι Opp. C. 1.450.

II laws, customs, rites

θέσμιον, Dor. and Ep. τέθμιον, τό, esp. in pl., laws, customs, rites, Hdt. 1.59, A. Eu. 491 (lyr.), S. Aj. 712 (lyr.); θ. ἀναγράψαι Arist. Ath. 3.4; προγόνων παλαιὰ θ. E. Fr. 360.45, cf. Call. Dian. 174: sg. in Pi. I. 6(5).20, E. Tr. 267 (anap.):—in form θέθμιον IG 9(1).334.46 (Locr., v B.C.).

2 agreement

agreement, τῶ τεθμίω ϝίστωρ ib. 7.3172.165 (Orchom. Boeot.).

III

Θέσμιος, title of Apollo, Paus. 5.15.7; of Demeter, Id. 8.15.4.

In the wild

θέσμιον · thesmion Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1564
θεσμίων · thesmiōn Aeschylus, Eumenides 490–493
θεσμίοις · thesmiois Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 707–709
θέσμια · thesmia Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..16 (DIORISIS sentence 214)
θέσμια · thesmia Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..3 (DIORISIS sentence 43)
θέσμιον · thesmion Euripides, Trojan Women (DIORISIS sentence 139)

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Where it came from

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