προθεσμ-ία
(i.e. ἡμέρα), ἡ, day appointed beforehand, a fixed or limited time, within which money was to be paid, actions brought, claims made, elections held, etc., and if this period was allowed to expire, no further proceedings were allowed, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 36.25, 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.39 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἐὰν ἡ π. ἐξήκῃ is past, [[ “IG” 12.41.9; τριετὴς π. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 954d, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 38.27, 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 4.5.10. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 generally, fixed or appointed time, προθεσμίας οὔσης τῷ κινδύνῳ [[ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 7.17; π. ἀδικημάτων [prev. author] 13.83; μηδεμίαν εἶναι π. τῆς ἐπιλήψεως 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 954e; τῆς προθεσμίας ὀλίγης εἰς τὴν χειροτονίαν οὔσης 2nd c.AD: Appianus Historicus “Bella Civilia” 1.14, cf. NT.Gal.4.2, “OGI” 509.21 (Aphrodisias, 2nd c.AD)] NT+5th c.BC+]; οὐκ ἐτήρησε τὴν π. τῆς θεοῦ [[ “Supp.epigram” 4.649 (Lydia, 2nd c.AD)] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; π. φυσικὴ [νόσου] natural period, [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 1.289; ἡ π. τῆς καθάρσεως 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 2.10, compare 1.21, +others: _plural_, τρεῖς τοῦ μηνὸς ἀρχαὶ καὶ π. (Kalends, Nones and Ides) 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.269b; προθεσμίας ὁριζομένους ἑορτάς 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Nigr.” 27. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__3 occasion of delay, [[ 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 15.5.1. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__II προθέσμιος, α, ον, adjective foreappointed, Ἔφεσος, ἡ π. τῶν γάμων (i.e. πόλις) [[Ach. Tat. 5.21. ] Refs]