- θεμιτός
- θεμιτός, ή, όν (θέμις ‘law as established by custom’; Hom. Hymns, Hdt. et al.; ins, pap; Jos., Bell. 6, 432) pert. to being appropriate or right, with implication that the thing so described is not a matter of codified law but unwritten procedure based on custom and awareness of the transcendent, allowed, permitted, right θεμιτόν ἐστιν it is right w. inf. foll. (Sext. Emp., Adv. Gramm. 81; SIG 965, 16f) 1 Cl 63:1. Mostly w. neg. (Hdt. 5, 72 al.; Ael. Aristid. 45 p. 25 D.; Tob 2:13 BA; Philo, Op. M. 17 οὐ θ.; Jos., Ant. 14, 72) οὐ θ. it is not right (without copula as Hyperid. 6, 27; Just., D. 134, 3; Ath., R. 77, 29) Dg 6:10.—HVos, ΘΕΜΙΣ ’56; LfgrE col. 991 (lit.) s.v. θέμις. DDD 1613f. DELG s.v. θέμις.
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