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θεσμός

thesmos · ὁ

that which is laid down, law, ordinance

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Where it lives

  • Eumenides 5 · 9.54/10k
  • Antigone 2 · 2.73/10k
  • Athenian Constitution 4 · 2.46/10k
  • Suppliant Maidens 1 · 2.07/10k
  • Machabaeourum III 1 · 1.99/10k
  • Proverbia 2 · 1.8/10k
  • De Mundo 1 · 1.58/10k
  • Sapientia Salomonis 1 · 1.45/10k
  • Trachiniae 1 · 1.38/10k
  • Machabaeorum IV 1 · 1.3/10k
  • Ajax 1 · 1.27/10k
  • Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k

Densest 12 of 21 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

that which is laid down, law, ordinance, the order, laws

that which is laid down, law, ordinance, once in Hom., λέκτροιο παλαιοῦ θεσμὸν ἵκοντο Od. 23.296; εἰρήνης θεσμοί the order of peace, h.Hom. 8.16; esp. of divine laws, θ. τὸν μοιρόκραντον ἐκ θεῶν A. Eu. 391; ἵμερος . . τῶν μεγάλων πάρεδρος θ. S. Ant. 800 (lyr.); οἱ τῶν θεῶν θ. X. Cyr. 1.6.6; θ. Ἀδραστείας, οἱ τῆς εἱμαρμένης θ., Pl. Phdr. 248c, Plu. Cons.Apoll. 2.111d; παρέβη θ. ἀρχαίους Ar. Av. 331 (lyr.).

2 law, law, jurisprudence

of human law, οἱ πάτριοι θ. Hdt. 3.31; at Athens, esp. of the laws of Draco, IG 1(2).115.20, And. 1.81, Decr. ib. 83, Arist. Ath. 4.1, etc., cf. Ael. VH 8.10: used by Solon of his own laws, Sol. 36.16, cf. 31.2, Plu. Sol. 19; ὁ ταῦτα ἀπεργαζόμενος θ. νόμος ἂν ὀρθῶς εἴη κείμενος Pl. Ep. 355c; ὁ τοῖς ἄλλοις τιθέμενος θεσμοὺς Δημήτριος Duris 10J.; ὅδʼ ὁ τεθμὸς πὲρ τῶν ἐντοφηΐων GDI 2561C 19 (Delph.): in later poetry, θεσμοί,= law, jurisprudence, Epigr.Gr. 434.4, al.; θεσμῶν ταμίης, πρόμαχος, IG 3.6

3 rule, precept, rite, the law, appointed, strain

generally, rule, precept, rite, S. Tr. 682; θ. πυρός the law of the beacon-fire, A. Ag. 304; τεθμὸς ἀέθλων Pi. O. 6.69; στεφάνων τ. the appointed crowns, ib. 13.29; θ. ὅδʼ εὔφρων the cheering strain (cf. νόμος), A. Supp. 1034 (lyr.); ὕμνου τεθμὸν Ὀλυμπιονίκαν Pi. O. 7.88; μακάρων Id. Pae. 4.47.

II institution, tribunal

institution, as the tribunal of the Areopagus, A. Eu. 615; τεθμὸς Ἡρακλέος, Ποτειδᾶνος τεθμοί, the Olympian, Isthmian games, Pi. N. 10.33, O. 13.40.

III

= θησαυρός, Anacr. 58.

IV

θεσμοί· αἱ συνθέσεις τῶν ξύλων, Hsch.

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