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θαυματός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: θαυματός θαυματή θαυματόν

Structure: θαυματ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: poet. for qaumasto/s, Hes., Pind.

Sense

Examples

  • καὶ τοσοῦτον οὐδεὶσ ἐξηπατήθη τῶν καὶ πάνυ κεκρατημένων ὑπὸ τῆσ κατὰ τὴν θέαν ἡδονῆσ, ὡσ ὑπὸ τῆσ ὑπερβολῆσ τῶν παρ’ ἄλλοισ θαυμάτων λήθην ποιήσασθαι τῆσ πατρίδοσ. (Lucian, Patriae Encomium, (no name) 1:5)
  • ἄρρητ’ ἀνωνόμαστα, θαυμάτων πέρα, οὐχ ὅσι’ οὐδ’ ἀνεκτά. (Euripides, Hecuba, episode, lyric8)
  • πολλῶν δ’ ὅδ’ ἁνὴρ θαυμάτων ἥκει πλέωσ ἐσ τάσδε Θήβασ. (Euripides, episode 1:3)
  • βάκχασ ποτνιάδασ εἰσιδών, αἳ τῆσδε γῆσ οἴστροισι λευκὸν κῶλον ἐξηκόντισαν, ἥκω φράσαι σοὶ καὶ πόλει χρῄζων, ἄναξ, ὡσ δεινὰ δρῶσι θαυμάτων τε κρείσσονα. (Euripides, episode, trochees 2:23)
  • ξυνήλθομεν δὲ βουκόλοι καὶ ποιμένεσ, κοινῶν λόγων δώσοντεσ ἀλλήλοισ ἔριν ὡσ δεινὰ δρῶσι θαυμάτων τ’ ἐπάξια· (Euripides, episode, trochees 5:1)

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

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