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νομ-ίζω,
future νομιῶ [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 571, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.87, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Ionic dialect 1st pers. plural νομιοῦμεν [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.17; later νομίσω 3rd c.AD(?): Longus Scriptor Eroticus 1.1 codices, 5th-6th c.AD: Procopius Gazaeus Rhetor “Epistulae - Epistolographi” 12: ] Refs 5th c.BC+]aorist ἐνόμισα, poetry νόμισα [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 5(4).2 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: perfect νενόμικα [[ 4th c.BC: Axionicus Comicus 6.8 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]:—passive, future νομισθήσομαι [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 240e, etc.: ] Refs 5th c.BC+]future middle νομιοῦμαι in passive sense, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἱερῆς νούσου” 1 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist ἐνομίσθην (see. below [[ 1.1, 2)] Refs]: perfect νενόμισμαι, 3rd.pers. plural νενομίδαται [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 51.23 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; Doric dialect infinitive -ίχθαι[[ Sthenidas Philosophus cited in 5th c.AD: Stobaeus, Joannes 4.7.63] Refs 5th c.AD+]: pluperfect 3rd.pers. singular ἐνενόμιστο [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 962 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: (νόμος):—use customarily, practise, ἓν τόδε ἴδιον νενομίκασι [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.173 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ν. γλῶσσαν to have a language in common use,[[ [prev. work] 142; φωνήν [prev. author] 2.42; οὔτε ἀσπίδα οὔτε δόρυ [prev. author] 5.97 ] Refs]; πανήγυριν, πληγὴν ἐν τῇ ὁρτῇ, [[ [prev. author] 2.63 ] Refs]; ταῦτα.. Ἕλληνες ἀπ᾽ Αἰγυπτίων νενομίκασι have adopted these customs from the Egyptians, [[[prev. work] 51, compare 4.27; ἱπποτροφίας ἐν Πανελλάνων νόμῳ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 2.38; ἀργυροστερῆ βίον 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 1003(989); ν. θειότατον νόμον 5th c.BC: Gorgias Rhetor et Sophista “fragment” 6D. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ν. ἐκκλησίαν have a regular popular assembly, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1275b7 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἀγορᾶς κατασκευὴν ν. (conjecture for ὀνομάζουσιν)[[ [prev. work] 1331a32; δραχμὰς ἇν Τροζάνιοι νομίζοντι “IG” 42(1).77.16 (Epid., 2nd c.BC)] Refs 2nd c.BC+]:—frequently in passive, to be customary, οὔτω τοῦτο νομίσδεται [[ 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus “Supp.” 24; ὅπου τὸ χαίρειν μηδαμοῦ νομίζεται 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 423; σωφροσύνη 'νενόμιστο ] Refs 7th c.BC+]was the fashion, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 962: _impersonal_, εἰκῇ νομίζεται 6th c.BC: Xenophanes Poeta Philosophus 2.13 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; ὡς νομίζεται as is the custom, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 32, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 99 (Lyric poetry), etc.; οἷάπερ ν. 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1046; οἷα τοῖς κάτω νομίζεται 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 327, compare 691; ᾗ νομίζεται [prev. author] “OC” 1603: ] Refs 5th c.BC+]participle νομιζόμενος customary, γέρα τὰ ν. [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.25; εὐχαὶ αἱ ν. [prev. author] 6.32; εἰς τὸν ν. χρόνον “IG” 12.19.15; τὰ ν. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]customs, usages, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.35, 5.42, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 1185; τὰ ν. μυστήρια 1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 14; τὰ ἱερὰ τὰ ν. 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.82; συντελέσαι τὰ ν. τοῖς θεοῖς “IG” 12.22.4, compare 54.16; τὰ τοῖς θεοῖς ν. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.5.14 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; frequently of funeral rites, τὰ ν. ποιεῖν [[ 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.13, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 19.33; ἐπειδὴ τὰ ν. αὐτῷ φέροιτο 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.243 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: also aorist participle, τό τοι νομισθὲν τῆς ἀληθείας κρατεῖ [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 86; τὰ ν. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 71 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]: perfect participle, τὰ νενομισμένα τοῖς κατοιχομένοις [[ “PRyl.” 153.6 (2nd c.AD),compare “SIG” 1109.34 (2nd c.AD). ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
Close Browse lexicon entries __2 of a legislator, enact, ἐνόμισεν ἑνὶ ἱματίῳ δι᾽ ἔτους προσεθίζεσθαι [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Respublica Lacedaemoniorum” 2.4, compare 12.3, “Cyr.” 8.5.3: with _accusative_, [prev. author] “Lac.” 1.7 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 37.20; τὰ νομισθέντα ὑπὸ Μάρκου [prev. author] 78.22; compare νομιστέος 1. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__3 with dative, make common use of, use, φωνῇ [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.117; ὑσί [prev. work] 63 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; νομίζουσι Αἰγύπτιοι οὐδ᾽ ἥρωσι οὐδέν, i.e. practise no such worship, [[ [prev. author] 2.50; ἀγῶσι καὶ θυσίαις 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.38; εὐσεβείᾳ [prev. author] 3.82; οὔτε τούτοις χρῆται οὔθ᾽ οἷς ἡ ἄλλη Ἑλλὰς ν. [prev. author] 1.77 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; especially use as current coin, ἐν Βυζαντίοις, ὅπου σιδαρέοισι νομίσμασιν νομίζουσι [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 96 (uncertain reading); ἐν Λακεδαίμονι σιδηρῷ σταθμῷ νομίζουσι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Eryxias” 400b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—hence in passive, to be struck, ἀργύριον νενομισμένον ἐς Τιβέριον, i.e. with the head of Tiberius, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 1.15. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__4 with infinitive, to be accustomed to do, νομίζουσι Διὶ θυσίας ἔρδειν [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.131, compare 133, 202, 3.15 ] Refs 5th c.BC+], etc.:— passive, νενόμισται τὰ σχέτλια ἔργα Λήμνια καλέεσθαι [[ [prev. author] 6.138 ] Refs]; γυμνοὺς εἰσιέναι νομίζεται it is customary for them.., [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 498, compare 1420, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.15, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.4.36. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II own, acknowledge, consider as, ὡς δούλους ν. τινάς [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.1; τὸν προέχοντα ἔτεσι ν. ὡς πατέρα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 879c: ὡς] Refs 5th c.BC+] is frequently omitted, ὄμμα γὰρ δόμων νομίζω δεσπότου παρουσίαν [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 169; τοὺς κακοὺς χρηστοὺς ν. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 610, compare “Ant.” 183, “El.” 1317; τοὺς αὐτοὺς φίλους νομιῶ καὶ ἐχθρούς “IG” 12.71.20; νομίσαι χρὴ ταῦτα μυστήρια 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 143 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; θεὸν ν. τινά believe in one as a god, σὺ Ἔρωτα οὐ θεὸν νομίζεις [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 202d; θεὰν οὐ τὴν Ἀναίδειαν, ἀλλὰ τὴν Αἰδῶ ν. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 8.35 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ν. τούτους [θεούς] believe in these [as gods], [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.59; οὓς ἡ πόλις ν. θεοὺς οὐ νομίζων 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.1.1, “Ap.” 10, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 24b; τοὺς ἀρχαίους οὐ ν. [prev. author] “Euthphr.” 3b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; but ν. θεοὺς εἶναι believe that there are gods, [[ [prev. author] “Ap.” 26c, “Lg.” 886a (compare below 4): without εἶναι, δίκην καὶ θεοὺς μόνον ν. [ἄνθρωπος] [prev. author] “Mx.” 237d ] Refs]; τὸ παράπαν θεοὺς οὐδαμῶς ν. to be an atheist, [[ [prev. author] “Lg.” 885c, compare 908c, “Ap.” 18c, “Prt.” 322a; θεοὺς ν. οὐδαμοῦ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 497 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]:—passive, to be deemed, reputed, considered, οἷς τὸ πέλειν τε καὶ οὐκ εἶναι ταὐτὸν νενόμισται [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Parmenides Poeta Philosophus 6.8; Ἕλληνες ἤρξαντο νομισθῆναι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.51 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἱ νομιζόμενοι μὲν υἱεῖς, μὴ ὄντες δέ.. [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 40.47 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἡ -ομένη (variant{ὀνομαζ-}) πολιτεία [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1293b22. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II.2 esteem, hold in honour, χρυσὸν.. περιώσιον ἄλλων [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 5(4).2; οὔτε θεοὺς οὔτε ἀνθρώπους ν. 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 12.9 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, to be esteemed, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 466b. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.3 with accusative of things, hold, believe, ταὐτὰ περί τινος [[ [prev. author] “Phdr.” 258c, etc.; ἐποίει ἄλλα παρ᾽ ἃ ἐνόμισεν [prev. author] “Min.” 320b ] Refs]; ἀκοῇ ν., opposed to πείρᾳ αἰσθάνεσθαι, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.81. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.4 with accusative et infinitive, deem, hold, believe that.., πότερα νομίζεις δυστυχεῖν ἐμ; [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 800, compare “OT” 549, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.4.11; θεὸν νομίζουσι εἶναι τὸ πῦρ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.16 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: with future infinitive, expect that.., [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 551 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist infinitive is sometimes found in codices referring to future, ἐνόμισαν ἐπιθέμενοι ῥᾳδίως κρατῆσαι [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.3 (κρατήσειν in same phrase, 4th c.BC: Aeneas Tacticus 2.3), compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.24, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 13.6; in 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1082 the ] Refs 5th c.BC+]aorist infinitive may be gnomic.
__II.5 with participle, νομίσωμεν ἐκγενησόμενον [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.68; νόμιζε.. ἄνδρα ἀγαθὸν ἀποκτείνων 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.6.24; νόμιζε ταῦτα δεδογμένα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 450a, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 14.9 (assuming variant). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.6 with ὡς, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.88. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.7 passive, with genitive of the person in possession, τοῦ θεῶν νομίζετα; whose sanctuary is it held to be? [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 38 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὐ τοῦ κρατοῦντος ἡ πόλις ν.; [[ [prev. author] “Ant.” 738. ] Refs]
__II.8 absolutely, νομίζοντα λέγειν to speak with full belief, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 257d (nisi to be read ὀνειδίζοντα). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.9 frequent, μυχὸν ν. [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 801 (Lyric poetry, uncertain reading). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
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