κόσμ-ιος, α, ον,
(-ος, ον, Gal. 16.606, Sor. 1.3),
I
1. well-ordered, regular, moderate, δαπάνη Pl. R. 56o d; οἴκησις Id. Criti. 112 c; κόσμιόν ἐστι, c. inf., is a regular practice, Ar. Pl. 565.
2. of persons, orderly, well-behaved, δίκαιοι καὶ σοφοὶ καὶ κ. ib. 89; κ. καὶ σώφρων Lys. 21.19; κ. καὶ εὔκολοι Pl. R. 329 d; κ. καὶ φρόνιμος ψυχή Id. Phd. 108 a; χρηστὸς εἶ καὶ κ. Nicopho 16; ἥτις ἐστὶ κοσμία γυνή Anaxandr. 56, cf. Arist. Pol. 1277b23; κ. ἐν διαίτῃ Pl. R. 408 b; πρὸς τοὺς θεούς Id. Smp. 193 a; οἱ κοσμιώτατοι φύσει Id. R. 564 e; of a patient, quiet, Hp. Acut. 65: freq. in Oratt., of honest, orderly citizens, Lys. 26.3, etc.; τοὺς πολίτας -ιωτέρους ποιεῖν Isoc. 20.18; modest, ὁμιλία X. Mem. 3.11.14 (Sup.); τὸ κ. decency, order, S. El. 872, Pl. Lg. 802 e. Adv. κοσμίως regularly, decently, Ar. Pl. 709, 978, al.; κ. ἔχειν Pl. Phd. 68 c; κ. ἥκομεν as befits us, Id. Sph. 216 a; κ. βιοῦν Lys. 3.6: Comp. - ιώτερον, βεβιωκέναι Isoc. 15.162: Sup. - ώτατα, τὰς συμφορὰς φέρειν Lys. 3.4.
II Subst. κόσμιος, ὁ, (κόσμος IV) = cross κοσμοπολίτης, Plu. 2.600 f, Arr. Epict. 1.9.1.
G2887 — κόσμιος
κόσμον, of three term. in classical Greek, cf. WHs Appendix, p. 157; Winers Grammar, § 11, 1; (Buttmann, 25 (22f)) (κόσμος), well-arranged, seemly, modest: [1Ti 2:9] (WH marginal reading κοσμίως); of a man living with decorum, a well-ordered life, [1Ti 3:2]. (Aristophanes, Xenophon, Plato, Isocrates, Lysias, others) (Cf. Trench, § xcii.)
κόσμιος , - ον
(in cl . - α , - ον ),
( < κόσμος ),
[in LXX : [Ecc 12:9] (H8626) * ;]
orderly, decent, modest: [1Ti 2:9] ( WH , mg ., - ίως , q.v. ) [1Ti 3:2]. †
* κοσμίως ,
adv
( < κόσμος ),
decently, fittingly: [1Ti 2:9] ( WH , mg .). †