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θεμιστ-εύω ,
A.declare law and right, c. dat., “Μίνωα ἴδον . . θεμιστεύοντα νέκυσσιν” Od. 11.569: c. gen., govern, “θ. δὲ ἕκαστος παίδων ἠδ᾽ ἀλόχων” 9.114.
II. give by way of answer or oracle, νημερτέα βουλὴν πᾶσι θ. h.Ap.253, cf. Lys.Fr.23S.: abs., deliver oracles, E.Ion371, D.S.5.67, Plu.Alex. 14; τινα Orac. ap. Ael.VH3.43; cf. θεμιτεύω.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (7):
    • Euripides, Ion, 371
    • Homer, Odyssey, 11.569
    • Homer, Odyssey, 9.114
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 3 to Apollo, 253
    • Plutarch, Alexander, 14
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 5.67
    • Aelian, Varia Historia, 3.43
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