nomoi

In the fourth century it was applied to the ordinances of the councils, and thus contrasted with the Greek word nomoi, the ordinances of the civil authorities; the compound word "Nomocanon" was given to those collections of regulations in which the laws formulated by the two authorities on ecclesiastical matters were to be found side by side.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

There is no other criterion of evaluation or obligation; the institu - tionalized judgment of men expressed in their nomoi is the only criterion, and it is valid as such.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas CHARLES H. KAHN 1968

And to further facilitate clarity, I suggest abandoning the use of the term “law” in these discussions, unless it is in quotes, and use a term like nomoi meaning “commands from a lawgiver to the public”.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Conceptions of Constitutionality — More Thoughts In Reply to Randy: 2009

Let us then affirm the paradox that strains of music are our laws (nomoi), and this latter being the name which the ancients gave to lyric songs, they probably would not have very much objected to our proposed application of the word.

Laws 2006

The physical doctrines just described seek to explain the origin of the species; but how did men come to live as they do today (i.e., in the fifth century B.C.), in cities governed by laws and binding customs (nomoi)?

Dictionary of the History of Ideas CHARLES H. KAHN 1968

Megarian Decree “written nomoi” (Acharnians 532), refers to the Solonian nomoi about inheritance and about the payment of debts on the first of the month

Dictionary of the History of Ideas MARTIN OSTWALD 1968

An evolutionary or naturalist view of nomoi as man-made need not be subversive of traditional insti - tutions in its intended moral and political application.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas CHARLES H. KAHN 1968

Theognis 'complaint (54) that those who now hold power “knew formerly neither dikai nor proper forms of behavior (nomoi)” points in the same direction, for the implication is that the present rulers were not brought up to know the ways of social con - duct needed for the proper functioning of society.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas MARTIN OSTWALD 1968

Then men established laws (nomoi) and punishment “so that justice might rule and hold crime (hybris) as her slave.”

Dictionary of the History of Ideas CHARLES H. KAHN 1968

The verses of Critias present us with a definite theory as to the man-made origin of human law (nomoi) as well as of the belief in the gods.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas CHARLES H. KAHN 1968