G3544 νομικός (nomikós)

νομικός [page 428] Without entering into the discussion as to whether this term when applied to Zenas in Tit_3:13 implies in his case a knowledge of Roman or Hebrew law, it may be noted that exx. of the former sense can be readily produced from the papyri and inscrr. : see e.g. BGU I. 326 ii. 22 (ii/A.D.) where a certain Gaius Lucius Geminianus, νομικὸς Ῥωμαϊκός , certifies that he bas examined the copy of a will, and finds that it corresponds with the original : cf. Mommsen s commentary ad l. in the Berliner Sitzungsberichte , 1894, p. 4, n. .1 , where a number of instances of νομικός , lawyer, are cited from Greek inscrr. of the Imperial age. See also Magn 191 .4 (time of Antonines) a decree honouring Ζώβιον Διοσκουρίδου νομικὸν ζήσαντα κοσμίως , and PAS ii. p. 137 (Imperial period) Λ . Μαλίῳ Μαξίμῳ νομικῷ . In P Oxy II. 237 viii. 2 (A.D. 186) we have the copy of an answer by a νομικός ἀντίγραφον προσφω̣ν̣[ήσεως νομ ]ικοῦ to a technical question addressed to him by the presiding magistrate, which prepares us for the frequent appointment of νομικοί as assessors, where the judge was a soldier and therefore not a legal expert : see GH ad I. and cf. CPR I. 18 .24 (A.D. 124) (= Chrest. II. p. 93) Βλαίσιος Μαριανὸς ἔπαρχος . . συνλαλήσας Ἀρτε [μι ]δ [ώρῳ τ ]ῷ νομ [ι ]κῷ [π ]ε [ρὶ το ]ῦ πράγματος , ὑ [πη ]γόρευσεν ἀπό [φασιν ἣ καὶ ἀν ]ε [γ ]νώσθ [η , P Cattaoui iii. 18 (ii/A.D.) (= Archiv iii. p. 59, Chrest. II. p. 421) Λοῦπ [ος ] λαλήσας μετὰ τῶν νομικῶν εἶπεν κτλ . The term is also applied to a private notary, as in BGU I. 361 iii. 2 (A.D. 184) ὁ νομικὸς ὁ τὴν οἰκονομίαν γράψας : and for the corresponding νομογράφος cf. P Fay 28 .15 (A.D. 150 1) ( = Selections , p. 82) ἔγραψ [ε ]ν ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν Ἀμμώνιος νομογ (ράφος ). On the late variant νομικάριος for νομικός see P Oxy XII. 1416 .21 ( c. A.D. 299) with the editors note.

νομικός, -ή, -όν (νόμος), [in LXX: 4Ma.5:4 * ;] __1. relating to law: μάχαι, Tit.3:9. __2. learned in the law; as subst., ὁ ν. (EV, lawyer): Mat.22:35, Luk.10:25, Tit.3:13; pl., Luk.7:30 11:45-46, 52 14:3 (cf. MM, xvii).† SYN.: γραμματεύς, q.v (AS)