προθέσμιος, προθεσμία, προθεσμιον (πρό (which see in d. β.) and θεσμός fixed, appointed), set beforehand, appointed or determined beforehand, pre-arranged (Lucian, Nigr. 27); ἡ προθεσμία, namely, ἡμέρα, the day previously appointed; universally, the pre-appointed time: Gal_4:2. (Lysias, Plato, Demosthenes, Aeschines, Diodorus, Philo cf. Siegfried, Philo, p. 113, Josephus, Plutarch, others; ecclesiastical writings; cf. Kypke and Hilgenfeld on Galatians, the passage cited.)

προθεσμία prothesmia 1x a time before appointed, set or appointed time, Gal_4:2

** προ -θέσμιος , -α , -ον , [in Sm .: Job_28:3 , Dan_9:26 * ;] appointed before\-hand . In Attic law, as subst . (so always in cl .), ἡ Papyri ( sc . ἡμέρα ), a day appointed beforehand, a previously appointed time: Gal_4:2 .†

προθεσμία (~ προθέσμιος ) [page 540] lit. a time limit for enforcement of claims which ἡ προθεσμία ( sc. ἡμέρα ), the previously appointed day, is a common legal term, as in Gal_4:2 : cf. P Oxy I. 37 i. 11 (A.D. 49) (= Selections , p. 49) ἐνέστηι ἡ προθεσμία τοῦ δευτέρου ἐνιαυτοῦ , there arrived the appointed time for the second year, ib. IV. 728 .18 (A.D. 142) τῇ ὡρισμένῃ προθεσμίᾳ , the stipulated date (Edd.), P Tebt II. 294 .17 (A.D. 146) ταῖς συνήθεσι προθεσμίαις , at the accustomed dates, and P Oxy IV. 724 .12 (A.D. 155) οὐκ ἐκδέξομαι τὴν προκειμένην προθεσμ [ί ]αν , I will not wait for the aforesaid limit. The word is used of instalment in P Ryl II. 100 .11 (A.D. 238) τὸν φόρον ἀπο ]δώσω ὑμῖν ἐν δυσὶ προθεσμί [αις , I will deliver the rent to you in two instalments (Edd.). For the compd. ἐκπρόθεσμος see P Oxy III. 533 .6 (ii/iii A.D.) ἵ ]να μὴ ἐκπρόθεσμα γένηται , that they may not be later than the due time (Edd.).

προθέσμιος προ-θέσμιος, η, ον [Etym: θεσμός] "fore-appointed", Luc. προθεσμία (sc. ἡμέρα), in attic law, "a day appointed beforehand", within which money was to be paid, actions brought, claims made, elections held, Dem. , Aeschin. : —generally, "an appointed time", Plat.

προ-θέσμιος, -α, -ον [in Sm.: Job.28:3, Dan.9:26 * ;] appointed before­hand. In Attic law, as subst. (so always in cl.), ἡ π. (sc. ἡμέρα), a day appointed beforehand, a previously appointed time: Gal.4:2.† (AS)