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θαυμ-αστός

thaumastos

wonderful, marvellous

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Where it lives

  • Apology 4 · 20/10k
  • Epinomis 8 · 12.68/10k
  • Epistles 20 · 11.81/10k
  • Symposium 16 · 9.17/10k
  • Fragments 3 · 7.53/10k
  • Euthydemus 9 · 7.23/10k
  • Minos 2 · 7.01/10k
  • Virtues and Vices 1 · 6.74/10k
  • Cleitophon 1 · 6.46/10k
  • 1 Peter 1 · 5.8/10k
  • Hiero 3 · 5.03/10k
  • Ars Poetica 5 · 4.94/10k

Densest 12 of 83 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

wonderful, marvellous, rete mirabile

wonderful, marvellous, first in neut. as Adv., θαυμαστὸν γανόωντα h.Cer. 10; ἔργα μεγάλα καὶ θ. Hdt. 1 Prooem.; θ. καρπός Id. 9.122; θ. λόχος γυναικῶν, of the Furies, A. Eu. 46; οὐδὲν τούτων θαυμαστὸν ἐμοί S. Ph. 191, etc.; ὃ πάντων -ότατον Pl. Smp. 220a; θ. πλέγμα, Medic., the rete mirabile, Gal. 5.196: c. acc., θαυμαστὴ τὸ κάλλος Pl. Phd. 110c; πᾶσαν ἀρετήν Id. Lg. 945e: c. gen., τῆς εὐσταθείας Plu. Publ. 14; τῆς ἐπιεικείας Id. Per. 39: c. dat., πλήθει Id. Caes. 6; πλέοσι ἐσόμεθα θωμαστότεροι

II admirable, excellent, strange, absurd, an extraordinary way

admirable, excellent, πατήρ, υἱός, ὄλβος, Pi. P. 3.71, 4.241, N. 9.45; ἁνὴρ γὰρ οὐ στενακτὸς . . , ἀλλʼ εἴ τις βροτῶν θ. S. OC 1665; iron., πράξας μὲν εὖ θ. ἂν γένοιτʼ ἀνήρ A. Pers. 212; strange, absurd, θ. καὶ γελοῖα Pl. Tht. 154b; θαυμαστὰ δρῶντες ib. 151a; θαυμαστὰ ἐργάζεται behaves in an extraordinary way, Id. Smp. 213d, cf. θαυμάσιος III; θαυμαστὸν ποιεῖς, ὅς . . X. Mem. 2.7.13; ὦ θαυμαστέ Pl. Plt. 265a; ὦ θαυμαστότατοι X. An. 7.7.10.

III to be worshipped

to be worshipped, οὐδείς μʼ ἀρέσκει νυκτὶ θαυμαστὸς θεῶν E. Hipp. 106.

In the wild

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Where it came from

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