νόμος (nomos)
Short definition (LSJ): usage, custom, [Μοῦσαι] μέλπονται πάντων τε νόμους καὶ ἤθεα κεδνά
Full entry: Lexicon.
480 occurrences of this form in 114 works (dictionary form exactly as written, accents ignored, v/u and j/i as single letters; inflected forms not included).
Works using this form
- Laws
- Histories (Books 3–9)
- Minos
- Nicomachean Ethics
- Histories (Books 1–2)
- Republic
- Memorabilia
- Discourses
- On Abstinence from Animal Food
- On the Posterity of Cain
- 4 Maccabees
- Against Apion, Book 2
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 3
- On Stoic Self-Contradictions
- Anabasis
- Cyropaedia
- Library of History
- Meditations
- On the Migration of Abraham
- Gorgias
- On Three Virtues, that is to say, on Courage, Humanity, and Repentance
- On the Confusion of Languages
- On the Life of Moses: Books 1-3
- To Prove that every Man who is virtuous is also free
- Symposium
- The Six Enneads: Enneads III-IV
- History of the Peloponnesian War
- The Libation Bearers
- The Jewish War, Book 7
- On the Murder of Eratosthenes
- On the Allegories of the Sacred Laws
- Apology
- Sirach
- Birds
- Thesmophoriazusae
- Hecuba
- Ion
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 12
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 4
- Against the Corn-Dealers
- On the Meeting for the sake of receiving Instructions
- On the doctrine that Dreams are sent from God, Books 1-2
- Letters
- Statesman
- Wisdom of Solomon
- Wealth
- On the Crown
- Helen
- Heracleidae
- Heracles
- Hippolytus
- Iphigenia in Aulis
- The Suppliants
- The Trojan Women
- Works and Days
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 17
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 19
- The Jewish War, Book 2
- On Drunkenness
- On Rewards and Punishments
- On the Incorruptibility of the World
- On the Principle that the Worse is accustomed to be always plotting against the Better
- On the Tilling of the Earth by Noah
- On the Unchangeableness of God
- On the question, Who is the Heir of Divine Things
- Cratylus
- Hippias Major
- Phaedrus
- Timaeus
- Histories
- Hellenica
- The Eumenides
- 3 Maccabees
- Argonautica
- Ecclesiazusae
- Frogs
- Enchiridion
- Fragments
- Andromache
- Cyclops
- Electra
- Iphigenia in Tauris
- Orestes
- Iliad
- On the Mysteries
- Against Apion, Book 1
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 14
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 2
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 6
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 9
- The Jewish War, Book 3
- The Jewish War, Book 5
- About the Planting of Noah
- Concerning the Ten Commandments, which are the Heads ofthe Law
- On Fugitives
- On the Cherubim; and on the Flaming Sword; and on the First-Born Child of Man, Cain
- On the Creation of the World
- On the Life of a Man occupied with Affairs of State; or, on Joseph
- On the Life of the Wise Man made perfect by Instruction; or, on the Unwritten Law, that is to say, on Abraham
- On the Sacrifice of Abel and Cain
- On the Virtues and on the Office of Ambassadors. Adressed to Caius
- On the question why certain Names in the Holy Scriptures are changed
- Critias
- Epinomis
- Laches
- Menexenus
- Phaedo
- Protagoras
- The Six Enneads: Enneads V-VI
- On the Cleverness of Animals
- Whether an Old Man Should Engage in Public Affairs
- Letter to Marcella
- Antigone
- Oedipus at Colonus
Example passages
…ΑΘ. ταῦτʼ εἴη. καί μοι λέγε· κατὰ τί τὰ συσσίτιά τε ὑμῖν συντέταχεν ὁ νόμος καὶ τὰ γυμνάσια καὶ τὴν τῶν ὅπλων ἕξιν;…
…οὐ μὲν οὐδὲ λέληθε αὐτούς (εἰ γὰρ τινὲς καὶ ἄλλοι, τὰ Περσέων νόμιμα ἐπιστέαται καὶ Αἰγύπτιοι) ὅτι πρῶτα μὲν νόθον οὔ σφι νόμος ἐστὶ βασιλεῦσαι γνησίου παρεόντος, αὖτις δὲ ὅτι Κασσανδάνης τῆς Φαρνάσπεω θυγατρὸς ἦν παῖς Καμβύσης, ἀνδρὸς Ἀχαιμενίδεω, ἀλλʼ οὐκ ἐκ τῆς Αἰγυπτίης. ἀλλὰ παρατρέπουσι τὸν λόγον προσποιεύμενοι τῇ……
…ΣΩ. ὁ νόμος ἡμῖν τί ἐστιν;…
Subjects
Roman law & empire, Jewish law & temple