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θεσμός (thesmos) a rule ^G:N-M

θεσμός,

Doric dialect τεθμός (see. below), θεθμός [Refs 5th c.BC+], Locrian dialect τετθμός [Refs 5th c.BC+], poetry θεσμά [Refs 5th c.BC+]: (τίθημι):—that which is laid down, law, ordinance, once in [Refs 8th c.BC+]; εἰρήνης θεσμοί the order of peace, [Refs]; especially of divine laws, θ. τὸν μοιρόκραντον ἐκ θεῶν [Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἵμερος.. τῶν μεγάλων πάρεδρος θ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἱ τῶν θεῶν θ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; θ. Ἀδραστείας, οἱ τῆς εἱμαρμένης θ., [Refs 5th c.BC+]

__2 of human law, οἱ πάτριοι θ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; at Athens, especially of the laws of Draco, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: used by Solon of his own laws, [Refs 6th c.BC+]; ὁ τοῖς ἄλλοις τιθέμενος θεσμοὺς Δημήτριος [Refs 4th c.BC+],= law, jurisprudence, [Refs]; θεσμῶν ταμίης, πρόμαχος, [Refs]
__3 generally, rule, precept, rite, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; θ. πυρός the law of the beacon-fire, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; στεφάνων τ. the appointed crowns, [Refs]; θ. ὅδ᾽ εὔφρων the cheering strain (compare νόμος), [Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II institution, as the tribunal of the Areopagus, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; τεθμὸς Ἡρακλέος, Ποτειδᾶνος τεθμοί, the Olympian, Isthmian games, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III ={θησαυρός}, [Refs 6th c.BC+]
__IV θεσμοί· αἱ συνθέσεις τῶν ξύλων, [Refs 5th c.AD+]