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θεατής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: θεατής θεατές

Structure: θεατη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: qea/omai

Sense

  1. one who sees, a spectator

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • τούτοισ ἅπασι προεκπλήξασ τὸ θέατρον καὶ θαυμαστῆσ ἐλπίδοσ ἐμπλήσασ τοὺσ θεατάσ, ἐπειδή ποτε καὶ ᾆσαι καὶ κιθαρίσαι πάντωσ ἔδει, ἀνακρούεται μὲν ἀνάρμοστόν τι καὶ ἀσύντακτον, ἀπορρήγνυσι δὲ τρεῖσ ἅμα χορδὰσ σφοδρότερον τοῦ δέοντοσ ἐμπεσὼν τῇ κιθάρᾳ, ᾄδειν δὲ ἄρχεται ἀπόμουσόν τι καὶ λεπτόν, ὥστε γέλωτα μὲν παρὰ πάντων γενέσθαι τῶν θεατῶν, τοὺσ ἀθλοθέτασ δὲ ἀγανακτήσαντασ ἐπὶ τῇ τόλμῃ μαστιγώσαντασ αὐτὸν ἐκβαλεῖν τοῦ θεάτρου· (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 9:3)
  • περὶ πόδα δή σοι καὶ Εὐάγγελοσ οὗτοσ, παρ’ ὅσον σοί γε οὐδ’ ὀλίγον μέλει τοῦ γέλωτοσ τῶν θεατῶν. (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 10:3)
  • φημὶ γὰρ οὖν καὶ γυναιξὶ καλαῖσ οὐχ ὅπωσ συλλαμβάνειν ἐσ τὸ εὐμορφότερον, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐναντιοῦσθαι τὸν κόσμον τὸν πολύν, ὁπόταν τῶν ἐντυγχανόντων ἕκαστοσ ὑπὸ τοῦ χρυσοῦ καὶ τῶν λίθων τῶν πολυτελῶν ἐκπλαγεὶσ ἀντὶ τοῦ ἐπαινεῖν ἢ ’ χρόαν ἢ βλέμμα ἢ δειρὴν ἢ πῆχυν ἢ δάκτυλον, ὁ δὲ ταῦτ’ ἀφεὶσ ἐσ τὴν σαρδὼ ἢ τὸν σμάραγδον ἢ τὸν ὁρ́μον ἢ τὸ ψέλιον ἀποβλέπῃ, ὥστε ἄχθοιτο ἂν εἰκότωσ παρορωμένη διὰ τὸν κόσμον, οὐκ ἀγόντων σχολὴν ἐπαινεῖν αὐτὴν τῶν θεατῶν, ἀλλὰ πάρεργον αὐτῆσ ποιουμένων τὴν θέαν. (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 15:4)
  • τῆσ γὰρ τέχνησ τὸ ἀκριβὲσ καὶ τῆσ ἱστορίασ μετὰ τοῦ ἀρχαίου τὸ ὠφέλιμον ἐπαγωγὸν ὡσ ἀληθῶσ καὶ πεπαιδευμένων θεατῶν δεόμενον. (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 21:6)
  • οὐ μὴν ἀλλὰ τοὺσ μὲν ἀγωνιστὰσ οἰκτείρειν μοι ἔπεισιν ὧν πάσχουσιν, τῶν δὲ θεατῶν οὓσ φὴσ ἁπανταχόθεν τοὺσ ἀρίστουσ παραγίγνεσθαι εἰσ τὰσ πανηγύρεισ καὶ πάνυ θαυμάζω, εἰ τἀναγκαῖα παρέντεσ σχολάζουσιν ἐπὶ τοῖσ τοιούτοισ. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 11:3)

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

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