A.custom, habit, ἔ. τὸ πρόσθε τοκήων (but prob. f.l. for ἦθος) A.Ag.728 (lyr.); “τὸ σύνηθες ἔ.” S.Ph.894; “εἰ τὸ ἔ. συνθήκη” Pl.Cra.435a; “πάτρια ἔ.” Id.Plt.295a: prov., "ἔ.", φασί, "δευτέρη φύσις" Jul.Mis.353a; ἐν ἔθει τῇ πόλει εἶναι to be the habit, Th.2.64; ἔ. ἐστίν τινι, c. inf., Cratin.Jun.7.1, Alex.253; ἔθος ἔχειν, c. inf., Plu. Them.4; ἔθει by habit, habitually, opp. φύσει, Arist.EN1179b21; “ἐν ἔθει” Id.Fr.122; δι᾽ ἔθος, opp. ἐκ γενετῆς, Id.EN1154a33; ἐξ ἔθους ib. 1103a17; “κατὰ τὰ Ῥωμαίων ἔ.” PSI3.182 (iii A. D.), etc. (σϝέθ-, cf. Lat. suesco; v. βεσόν.)
ἔθος , εος, τό, (ἔθω)
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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