ἔθος, εος, τό,
(ἔθω) custom, habit, ἔ. τὸ πρόσθε τοκήων (but probably falsa lectio for{ἦθος}) [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 728 (Lyric poetry); τὸ σύνηθες ἔ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 894; εἰ τὸ ἔ. συνθήκη 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 435a; πάτρια ἔ. [prev. author] “Plt.” 295a: proverbial, “ἔ., φασί, δευτέρη φύσις” 4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Misopogon” 353a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν ἔθει τῇ πόλει εἶναι to be the habit, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.64 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἔ. ἐστίν τινι, with infinitive, [[ 4th c.BC: Cratinus Junior Comicus 7.1, 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 253 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἔθος ἔχειν, with infinitive, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Themistocles” 4 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; ἔθει by habit, habitually, opposed to φύσει, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1179b21; ἐν ἔθει [prev. author] “fragment” 122 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; δι᾽ ἔθος, opposed to ἐκ γενετῆς, [[ [prev. author] “EN” 1154a33 ] Refs]; ἐξ ἔθους[[ [prev. work] 1103a17; κατὰ τὰ Ῥωμαίων ἔ. “PSI” 3.182 (3rd c.AD), etc. (σϝέθ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]-, cf. Latin suesco; see at {βεσόν}.)