Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

νομικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: νομικός

Structure: νομικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: no/mos

Sense

  1. resting on law, conventional
  2. relating to the law
  3. learned in the law, a lawyer

Examples

  • ἀλλὰ διαθήκην μὲν οὐ γράφει μὴ εἰδὼσ πῶσ δεῖ γράφειν ἢ παραλαβὼν τὸν εἰδότα οὐδ’ ἐγγύην ἄλλωσ σφραγίζεται ἢ ἀσφάλειαν γράφει, ὀρέξει δὲ χρῆται δίχα νομικοῦ καὶ ἐκκλίσει καὶ ὁρμῇ καὶ ἐπιβολῇ καὶ προθέσει. (Epictetus, Works, book 2, 7:1)
  • πῶσ δίχα νομικοῦ; (Epictetus, Works, book 2, 8:1)
  • δισχιλίουσ δὲ καὶ πεντακοσίουσ ὁπλίτασ καὶ τέσσαρασ τῶν ἐπιφανῶν ἄνδρασ ἔστειλαν, τόν τε τοῦ Νομικοῦ Ιὤεσδρον καὶ Ἀνανίαν Σαδούκι καὶ Σίμωνα καὶ Ιοὔδην Ιὠνάθου, πάντασ εἰπεῖν δυνατωτάτουσ, ἵν’ οὗτοι τὴν πρὸσ τὸν Ιὤσηπον εὔνοιαν ἀποστρέψωσιν, κἂν μὲν ἑκὼν παραγένηται, λόγον ὑποσχεῖν ἐᾶν αὐτόν, εἰ δὲ βιάζοιτο μένειν, ὡσ πολεμίῳ χρῆσθαι. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 787:2)

Synonyms

  1. relating to the law

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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