θεμέλῐ-ος, ον,
of or for the foundation, λίθοι [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1137; οἰκόπεδα 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 5.66: _absolutely_, θεμέλιος (i.e. λίθος)] Refs 5th c.BC+], ὁ, foundation-stone, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Physica” 237b13, “Metaphorical” 1013a5: _metaphorically_, τῆς τέχνης θ. 3rd c.BC: Macho Comicus cited in 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 8.346a; θ. ἀγνοίας 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.266 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; οἱ θ. ἐκ παντοίων λίθων ὑπόκεινται the foundations, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.93; τοὺς θ. ἐκ τῶν λίθων οἰκοδομεῖσθαι 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 668a19: _metaphorically_, προλιπεῖντοὺς προγονικοὺς θ. “SIG” 888.70(Scaptopara, 3rd c.AD)] Refs 5th c.BC+]: also neuter θεμέλιον [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Analytica Posteriora” 95b37 (assuming variant), “PPetr.” 3p.121 (3rd c.BC), +others: _plural_, τὰ θ. 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Physica” 200a4, “PCair.Zen.” 176.71 (3rd c.BC), +others, 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 8.32.1: _metaphorically_, τὰ ὑποβληθέντα θ.] Refs 4th c.BC+], of the foundations of the world, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 2p.38U.: gender indeterminate, μὴ ὑποκειμένων.. θ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 1.2 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐκ τῶν θ. from the foundations, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.68 (also _sing._, ἐνέπρησαν [οἰκίαν] ἐκ θεμελίου “BGU” 909.17 (4th c.AD))] Refs 5th c.BC+]: metaphorically, ἐκθ. ἐσφαλμένοι [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.93.2, etc.; ἄρδην καὶ ἐκ θ. ἀπόλλυσθαι 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus 8.3.2 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; also ἀνεκτίσθη τὸ τεῖχος ἐκ θεμελείων (sic) [[ “Supp.epigram” 2.480(Kuban, 4th c.AD). ] Refs 4th c.AD+]
__II θεμέλια, τά, buildingsites, [[ 2nd c.AD: Ptolemaeus Mathematicus “Tetrabiblos” 174, compare 2nd c.AD: Vettius Valens Astrologus 82.24, +others ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]