θεμιτόν (themiton)

θεμιτόν is an Ancient Greek form of θεμιτός, meaning “allowed by the laws of God and men, righteous”. It is the nominative singular neuter adjective.

Found 69 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 4.6.30: … ὕτω· Πέργαμος οὐχ ὅπλοις κλεινὴ μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἵπποις πολλάκις αὐδᾶται Πῖσαν ἀνὰ ζαθέην. εἰ δὲ τὸν ἐκ Διόθεν θεμιτὸν θνατῷ νόον εἰπεῖν, ἔσσεται εἰσαῦτις πολλὸν ἀοιδοτέρη. ἀλλὰ καὶ εἰς Μηνόδωρον τὸν Εὐγάμου ἑνὸς τῶν συσχολαστῶν …

Plutarch, Numa 9.3: … ησιν αὐτῆς καὶ τὴν ἐπισκευήν, ὥσπερ ἄλλο τι τῶν ἀκινήτων καὶ πατρίων ἱερῶν, προσήκουσαν τοῖς ἱερεῦσιν. οὐ γάρ θεμιτόν, ἀλλʼ ἐπάρατον ἡγεῖσθαι Ῥωμαίους τὴν κατάλυσιν τῆς ξυλίνης γεφύρας, λέγεται δὲ καὶ τὸ πάμπαν ἄνευ σιδήρου κατ …

All forms of θεμιτός (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.