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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

  • Ἡράκλεισ, οὐ φιλοκάλου τινὸσ οὐδὲ περὶ τὰ εὐμορφότατα ἐρωτικοῦ τὸ ἔργον, ἀγροικία δὲ πολλὴ καὶ ἀπειροκαλία καὶ προσέτι γε ἀμουσία, τῶν ἡδίστων αὑτὸν ἀπαξιοῦν καὶ τῶν καλλίστων ἀποξενοῦν καὶ μὴ συνιέναι ὡσ οὐχ ὁ αὐτὸσ περὶ τὰ θεάματα νόμοσ ἰδιώταισ τε καὶ πεπαιδευμένοισ ἀνδράσιν, ἀλλὰ τοῖσ μὲν ἀπόχρη τὸ κοινὸν τοῦτο, ἰδεῖν μόνον καὶ περιβλέψαι καὶ τὼ ὀφθαλμὼ περιενεγκεῖν καὶ πρὸσ τὴν ὀροφὴν ἀνακῦψαι καὶ τὴν χεῖρα ἐπισεῖσαι καὶ καθ’ ἡσυχίαν ἡσθῆναι δέει τοῦ μὴ ἂν δυνηθῆναι ἄξιόν τι τῶν βλεπομένων εἰπεῖν, ὅστισ δὲ μετὰ παιδείασ ὁρᾷ τὰ καλά, οὐκ ἄν, οἶμαι, ἀγαπήσειεν ὄψει μόνῃ καρπωσάμενοσ τὸ τερπνὸν οὐδ’ ἂν ὑπομείναι ἄφωνοσ θεατὴσ τοῦ κάλλουσ γενέσθαι, πειράσεται δὲ ὡσ οἱο͂́ν τε καὶ ἐνδιατρῖψαι; (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 2:1)
  • χαίρουσιν γὰρ τὴν φωνὴν τοῦ δεσπότου γνωρίζουσαι, καὶ παραμυθίαν ἴσχουσιν τῶν τόνων τὸ γιγνώσκειν ὅτι θεατὴσ αὐταῖσ πάρεστιν καὶ ὅτι οὐ λανθάνουσιν ἀγωνιζόμεναι καλῶσ. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 17 1:2)
  • ἀμφὶ δ’ Ἠλέκτρασ πύλασ ἔστην θεατὴσ πύργον εὐαγῆ λαβών. (Euripides, Suppliants, episode13)
  • οὐκέτι θεατὴσ μαινάδων πρόθυμοσ εἶ. (Euripides, episode, trochees 11:25)
  • πότερα θεατὴσ ἢ χάριν μαντευμάτων; (Euripides, Ion, episode 1:40)

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

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