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A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, 3rd ed. is unavailable, but you can change that!

Described as an "invaluable reference work" (Classical Philology) and "a tool indispensable for the study of early Christian literature" (Religious Studies Review) in its previous edition, this new updated American edition of Walter Bauer's Wörterbuch zu den Schriften des Neuen Testaments builds on its predecessor's staggering deposit of extraordinary erudition relating to Greek literature from...

administrative t.t. (=Lat. biennium). It has been argued (s. Beginn. V, 326–36 [citing esp. KLake, TT 47, 1913, 356ff, on the juridical aspects of a period of limitation on capital cases; for earlier lit. on Luke’s alleged legal interests s. ibid. 298, n. 4]; s. also HTajra, The Trial of St. Paul ’89, 132; 193–96) that after a two-year period of limitation had run out (διετίας πληρωθείσης) Paul’s case would have been dismissed. But s. above and BAFCS III 322f.—DELG s.v. ἔτος. M-M.