The corpus record

θαμβέω

thambeo

to be astounded

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Where it lives

Mark 3 · 2.73/10k
Suppliant Maidens 1 · 2.07/10k
Sapientia Salomonis 1 · 1.45/10k
Hecuba 1 · 1.4/10k
Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k
Iphigenia in Tauris 1 · 1.21/10k
Iphigenia in Aulis 1 · 1.12/10k
Ion 1 · 1.09/10k
Odyssey 9 · 1.04/10k
Judices (cod. Al.) 1 · 0.68/10k
Iliad 7 · 0.63/10k
Regnorum II 1 · 0.62/10k

Densest 12 of 18 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

to be astounded

to be astounded, οἱ δὲ ἰδόντες θάμβησαν Il. 8.77, cf. B. 5.84; οἱ δʼ ἀνὰ θυμὸν ἐθάμβεον Od. 4.638, etc.; καὐτὸς τεθάμβηκʼ S. Ant. 1246; ἐθάμβησεν δὲ πᾶς . . ὅμιλος E. Ion 1205.

2 to be astonished at

c. acc., to be astonished at, θάμβησαν δʼ ὄρνιθας Od. 2.155, cf. 16.178; τὸν ἐθάμβεον Ἄρτεμίς τε καὶ Ἀθάνα Pi. N. 3.50; τέρας δʼ ἐθάμβουν A. Supp. 570 (lyr.): in late Prose, Plu. Aem. 34.

II alarm, to be astounded, astounded

later also causal, alarm, LXX 2 Ki. 22.5; τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς τινος PMag.Par. 1.237:—Pass., to be astounded, Ev.Marc. 1.27, POxy. 654.7, PMag. Leid.W. 11.39; τεθαμβημένος astounded, Plu. Brut. 20; διά τινος Id. Caes. [45].

In the wild

ἐθάμβουν · ethamboun Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 570
θάμβει · thambei Euripides, Hecuba (DIORISIS sentence 65)
ἐθάμβησεν · ethambēsen Euripides, Ion *qera/pwn.1205 (DIORISIS sentence 771)
ἐθάμβησεν · ethambēsen Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis *)aggelos (DIORISIS sentence 984)
θαμβούμενοι · thamboumenoi Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris *bouko/los.295 (DIORISIS sentence 122)
ἐθάμβεον · ethambeon Herodotus, Histories 1.111.4 (DIORISIS sentence 801)

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Where it came from

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