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θέσμιος , Dor. and Ep. τέθμιος , ον, or α, ον, (θεσμός)
A.fixed, settled, lawful, “ἑορτὰ τέθμιος” Pi.N.11.27; “τέθμιαι ὧραι” Call.Ap.87; θέσμια τάδε καὶ πάτρια Lex ap.Arist.Ath.16.10; θέσμιον (sc. ἐστί) A.Ag.1564 (lyr.); θέσμιόν ἐστι, = θέμις ἐστί, A.R.2.12; fitting, “θηρευτῆρσι σιγὴ τέθμιός ἐστι” Opp.C.1.450.
II. θέσμιον, Dor. and Ep. τέθμιον, τό, esp. in pl., laws, customs, rites, Hdt.1.59, A.Eu.491 (lyr.), S.Aj.712 (lyr.); “θ. ἀναγράψαι” Arist.Ath.3.4; προγόνων παλαιὰ θ. E.Fr.360.45, cf. Call.Dian.174: sg. in Pi.I.6(5).20, E.Tr.267 (anap.):—in form θέθμιον IG9(1).334.46 (Locr., v B.C.).
2. agreement, τῶ τεθμίω ϝίστωρ ib.7.3172.165 (Orchom. Boeot.).
III. Θέσμιος, title of Apollo, Paus.5.15.7; of Demeter, Id.8.15.4.
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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