Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

θαυμαστέος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: θαυμαστέος θαυμαστέᾱ θαυμαστέον

Structure: θαυμαστε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: qauma/zw의 분사형,

Sense

  1. to be admired
  2. one must admire

Examples

  • οὐ τἄρα σ’ Ἑλένην εἰ στυγεῖσ θαυμαστέον. (Euripides, Helen, episode 5:16)
  • οὐδὲν οὖν θαυμαστέον. (Euripides, Helen, episode, dialogue 4:18)
  • τὴν δὲ τῶν ἡμερῶν ἀνωμαλίαν οὐ θαυμαστέον, ὅπου καὶ νῦν διηκριβωμένων τῶν ἐν ἀστρολογίᾳ μᾶλλον ἄλλην ἄλλοι μηνὸσ ἀρχὴν καὶ τελευτὴν ἄγουσιν. (Plutarch, , chapter 19 7:2)
  • χωρὶσ τοίνυν τούτων εἴ τισ διεξίοι τοὺσ Τιμαίουσ αὐτοῦ καὶ τοὺσ Γοργίασ καὶ τοὺσ ἄλλουσ δὲ τοὺσ τοιούτουσ διαλόγουσ, ἐν οἷσ καὶ περὶ τῶν ἐν τοῖσ μαθήμασι διεξέρχεται καὶ περὶ τῶν κατὰ φύσιν καὶ περὶ πλειόνων ἄλλων, οὐδὲ διὰ ταῦτα θαυμαστέοσ ἐστίν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 1181)
  • "εἰ δὲ τοῖσ νενομισμένοισ τῶν θεῶν ὀνόμασι δαίμονάσ τινασ καλοῦμεν, οὐ θαυμαστέον εἶπεν ὁ ξένοσ ᾧ γὰρ ἕκαστοσ θεῷ συντέτακται καὶ παρ’ οὗ δυνάμεωσ καὶ τιμῆσ εἴληχεν, ἀπὸ τούτου φιλεῖ καλεῖσθαι. (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 2120)

Synonyms

  1. to be admired

  2. one must admire

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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