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εὐνομ-ία , Ep. and Ion. -ιη, ἡ,
A.good order, “ἀνθρώπων ὕβριν τε καὶ εὐνομίην ἐφορῶντες” Od.17.487; “ἐν εὐ. εἶναι” Xenoph.2.19; μετέβαλον ὧδε ἐς εὐ. Hdt.1.65, cf. 2.124: pl., “εὐνομίῃσι πόλιν κάτα . . κοιρανέουσ᾽” h.Hom.30.11, cf. Pl.Sph.216b; ἀπόλεμος εὐ. Pi.P.5.67, cf. AP6.195 (Arch.); Καίσαρος εὐ. ib.236 (Phil.); “εὐνομίαν διὰ τῆς μουσικῆς εἰσδέχεσθαι” Pl.R.425a; “οὐκ ἔστι εὐνομία τὸ εὖ κεῖσθαι τοὺς νόμους, μὴ πείθεσθαι δέ” Arist.Pol.1294a3, cf. 1280b6, Pl. Def.413e; οἱ ἐπὶ τῆς εὐνομίας, title of officials in Crete, GDI5075.35 (Latos).
2. loyalty to divine law, “εὐνομίᾳ σέβων μεγίστᾳ” S.Aj.713 (lyr.).
3. personified as daughter of Themis, Hes.Th.902, cf. Pi.O.9.16, 13.6, B.12.186, D.25.11, Lyr.Adesp.140.6, IG2.1598; title of a poem by Tyrtaeus, cf. Arist.Pol.1307a1, Str.8.4.10.
4. observance of the laws of art, “εὐ. μουσική” Longus 2.35.
II. (“εὔνομος” 11) diligence in foraging: metaph., of bees, Philostr.Im.2.2; regularity in pasturing, of sheep, Longus 1.5.
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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