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θήρειος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: θήρειος θήρειον

Structure: θηρει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: qh/r

Sense

  1. of wild beasts, of animals, the centaur, game

Declension

First/Second 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

  • καὶ καθάπερ οἱ κυνηγοὶ τοὺσ σκύλακασ οὐκ ἐῶσιν ἐκτρέπεσθαι καὶ διώκειν πᾶσαν ὀδμήν, ἀλλὰ τοῖσ ῥυτῆρσιν ἕλκουσι καὶ ἀνακρούουσι, καθαρὸν αὐτῶν καὶ ἄκρατον φυλάττοντεσ τὸ αἰσθητήριον ἐπὶ τὸ οἰκεῖον ἔργον, ἵν’ εὐτονώτερον ἐμφύηται τοῖσ ἴχνεσι πέλματα θηρείων μελέων μυκτῆρσιν ἐρευνῶν οὕτω δεῖ τὰσ ἐπὶ πᾶν θέαμα καὶ πᾶν ἄκουσμα τοῦ πολυπράγμονοσ ἐκδρομὰσ καὶ περιπλανήσεισ ἀφαιρεῖν καὶ ἀντισπᾶν ἐπὶ τὰ χρήσιμα φυλάττοντασ. (Plutarch, De curiositate, section 11 1:3)
  • καὶ διώκειν πᾶσαν ὀδμήν, ἀλλὰ τοῖσ ῥυτῆρσιν ἕλκουσι καὶ ἀνακρούουσι, καθαρὸν αὐτῶν φυλάττοντεσ καὶ ἄκρατον τὸ αἰσθητήριον ἐπὶ τὸ οἰκεῖον ἔργον, ἵν’ εὐτονώτερον ἐμφύηται τοῖσ ἴχνεσι πέλματα θηρείων μελέων μυκτῆρσιν ἐρευνῶν· (Plutarch, De curiositate, section 11 5:1)
  • τούτων δ’ οἱ μὲν τὰσ ἀκρωρείασ κατέχουσιν, οἱ δὲ ἐν νάπαισ αὐλίζονται καὶ ζῶσιν ἀπὸ θηρείων σαρκῶν τὸ πλέον καὶ καρπῶν ἀγρίων καὶ γάλακτοσ. (Strabo, Geography, Book 11, chapter 5 10:4)
  • ζῶσι δ’ ἀπὸ θηρείων σαρκῶν καὶ τῶν ἀκροδρύων, ἐπιτίθενται δὲ καὶ τοῖσ ὁδοιποροῦσι καταπηδήσαντεσ ἀπὸ τῶν ἰκρίων. (Strabo, Geography, Book 12, chapter 3 36:6)

Synonyms

  1. of wild beasts

Related

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

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