ε328Ἔθος
custom, habituation
Meaning a sign. Or an unwritten law, whereas a law [is] a written custom. Custom is not a human discovery, but [sc. a natutal product] of life and of time. And whereas law is comparable to tyranny, for each thing is…
Ἔθος· ἀντὶ τοῦ σημεῖον. ἢ νόμος ἄγραφος, νόμος δὲ ἔθος ἔγγραφον. ὅτι τὸ ἔθος οὐκ ἔστιν εὕρεμα ἀνθρώπων, ἀλλὰ βίου καὶ χρόνου. καὶ ὁ μὲν νόμος εἴκασται τυραννίδι· φόβῳ γὰρ ἕκαστα…