νόμ-ιμος, η, ον,
also ος, ον [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 2.22, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Mundo” 400b24 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:— conformable to custom, usage, or law, ν. ὅρκος Legal cited in [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.98; ν. ἔρωτες 5th c.BC: Gorgias Rhetor et Sophista “fragment” 6 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator; ἔργα δίκαια καὶ ν. 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 174 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; legitimate, ν. παῖδες [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 815 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]: hence, customary, prescriptive, φῶς [[[prev. work] 345 (Lyric poetry)] Refs], etc.; οἱ ν. θεοί [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 954a; ἡ ἐπίδεσις ἡ ν. 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 14; νόμιμόν [ἐστί] τινι ποιεῖν τι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.8.8; ν. τινὰ δεδέσθαι [prev. author] “Mem.” 1.2.49. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 observant of law, [[ 5th c.BC: Choerilus Epicus 3, 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 2.2.12, 4th c.BC: Archytas Tarentinus Philosophus cited in 5th c.AD: Stobaeus, Joannes 4.5.61; ν. καὶ κόσμιοι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 504d ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ν. πόλις Isoc. [prev. cited]
__II νόμιμα, τά, usages, customs, ἄλλα ἄλλοισιν νόμιμα, σφετέραν δ᾽ αἰνεῖ δίκαν ἕκαστος [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 215, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 334 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.79 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ν. Δωρικά, Χαλκιδικά, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.4, 5; τὰ κοινὰ τῶν Ἑλλήνων ν. [prev. author] 3.59 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; almost, ={νόμοι}, ἄγραπτα ν. [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 455; ν. θεῶν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 19; τὰ εἰωθότα ν. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 265a; ἄγραφα ν. [prev. author] “Lg.” 793a, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 23.70 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰ περὶ τοὺς θεοὺς ν., τὸ πρὸς τοὺς πολεμίους ν., [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 4.6.4, “Cyr.” 1.6.34 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ν. βαρβαρικά, title of treatise by Aristotle: rare in singular, τὸ πάντων ν. [[ 5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 135.1. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]