θεσμός,
Doric dialect τεθμός (see. below), θεθμός [[ “IG” 5(2).159 (Tegea, 5th c.BC), 3rd c.BC: Isyllus Lyricus 12 ] Refs 5th c.BC+], Locrian dialect τετθμός [[ “Berl.Sitzb.” 1927.8 (5th c.BC): ὁ: _plural_ θεσμοί] Refs 5th c.BC+], poetry θεσμά [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 92 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: (τίθημι):—that which is laid down, law, ordinance, once in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, λέκτροιο παλαιοῦ θεσμὸν ἵκοντο 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 23.296 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; εἰρήνης θεσμοί the order of peace, [[ “Hymni Homerici” 8.16 ] Refs]; especially of divine laws, θ. τὸν μοιρόκραντον ἐκ θεῶν [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 391 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἵμερος.. τῶν μεγάλων πάρεδρος θ. [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 800 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἱ τῶν θεῶν θ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.6.6 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; θ. Ἀδραστείας, οἱ τῆς εἱμαρμένης θ., [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 248c, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.111d; παρέβη θ. ἀρχαίους 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 331 (Lyric poetry). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 of human law, οἱ πάτριοι θ. [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.31 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; at Athens, especially of the laws of Draco, [[ “IG” 12.115.20, 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.81, Decrees [prev. work] 83, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 4.1, etc., compare 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “Varia Historia” 8.10 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: used by Solon of his own laws, [[ 6th c.BC: Solon Lyricus 36.16, compare 31.2, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Solon” 19; ὁ ταῦτα ἀπεργαζόμενος θ. νόμος ἂν ὀρθῶς εἴη κείμενος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Epistulae” 355c ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; ὁ τοῖς ἄλλοις τιθέμενος θεσμοὺς Δημήτριος [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Duris Epigrammaticus 10J.; ὅδ᾽ ὁ τεθμὸς πὲρ τῶν ἐντοφηΐων “GDI” 2561 C 19 (Delph.): in later poetry, θεσμοί] Refs 4th c.BC+],= law, jurisprudence, [[ epigram Gr. 434.4, +others] Refs]; θεσμῶν ταμίης, πρόμαχος, [[ “IG” 3.637, 638. ] Refs]