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νομ-ή , ἡ, (νέμω)
A.pasturage, “ἀμφίβιον . . ἔδωκε ν. βατράχοισι Κρονίων” Batr.59; “νομὰς νέμειν” Hdt.1.110; νομὰς νέμεσθαι ib.78, cf. Pl.Lg.679a, Arist.HA575b4, etc.; “ποιμνίων νομαί” S.OT761: in concrete sense, “νομαὶ βοσκημάτων” herds, X.An.3.5.2.
2. food from pasturing, Pl.Criti.111C, etc.; “αἷμα, ν. σαρκῶν” Id.Ti.80e; “ἡ προσήκουσα ψυχῆς ν.” Id.Phdr.248b; “ν. τῶν μελιττῶν τὸ θύμον” Arist.HA626 b20, cf. PCair.Zen.520.10 (iii B.C.).
3. feeding, grazing, of herds, νομὴν ποιεῖσθαι, = νέμεσθαι, Arist.HA596a14.
b. metaph., spreading, “ν. πυρός” Plb.1.48.5, Plu.Alex.35; freq. of sores, etc., “ν. ποιεῖσθαι” spread, Plb.1.81.6; “ὡς γάγγραινα, ν. ἕξει” 2 Ep.Ti.2.17, cf. Asclep. ap. Gal.12.995; ἵσταται ἡ ν., of baldness, Id.ib.411; “νομαί” spreading ulcers, Hp.Prorrh.2.13, cf. Gal.13.860,al.; “ν. σαρκὸς θηριώδεις” Plu.2.165e.
II. division, distribution, Hdt.2.52 (pl.), Pl.Prt.321c, al.; of an inheritance, D.36.12; ἡ πατρῴα (v.l. πατρῴων) “ν.” Arist.Pol.1303b34; διεφθαρκὼς νομῇ χρημάτων τὸν δῆμον by largess of money, Aeschin. 2.76, cf. IG5(1).1346 (Lacon.): in pl., = Lat. donativa, Hdn.3.8.9, 5.5.8,6.8.8.
2. paying out or distribution in bandaging, Heliod. ap.Orib.48.25.1, Gal.18 (2).741.
III. in Law, = Lat. possessio, Wilcken Chr.41 iii 20 (iii A.D.); μακρᾶς ν. παραγραφή, = longae posses- sionis praescriptio, Mitteis Chr.374 i 3 (iii A.D.); ν. ἄδικος, = injusta possessio, PTeb.286.7 (ii A.D.); ἐπὶ νομῆς πέμπειν, = in possessionem mittere, Just.Nov.53.4.1.
IV. ἐν χειρῶν νομαῖς, = ἐν χειρῶν νόμῳ (cf. “νόμος” 1.1 e), SIG700.29 (Maced., ii B.C.).
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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