νόμος — Middle Liddell

νόμος anything assigned, a usage, custom, law, ordinance, Lat. institutum, Hes.; νόμος πάντων βασιλεύς custom is lord of all, Pind. ap. Hdt.; κατὰ νόμον according to custom or law, Hes., Hdt., Attic; poet. κὰν νόμον Pind.:— παρὰ νόμον contrary to law, Aesch.:—dat. νόμῳ by custom, conventionally, opp. to φύσει, Hdt., Arist.:—at Athens νόμοι were Solon.ʼs laws, those of Draco being called θεσμοί. ἐν χειρῶν νόμῳ by the law of force, in the fight or scuffle, Hdt.; ἐν χειρὸς νόμῳ in actual warfare, Arist.; also, ἐς χειρῶν νόμον ἀπικέσθαι to come to blows, Hdt. a musical mode or strain, Aesch., Plat., etc.; νόμοι κιθαρῳδικοί Ar. a song sung in honour of some god, Hdt.; νόμοι πολεμικοί war- tunes, Thuc.

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usage, custom, law, ordinance

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