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θεάομαι

theaomai

gaze at, behold

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Where it lives

  • 1 John 3 · 14.11/10k
  • Symposium 11 · 11.55/10k
  • Laches 8 · 10.43/10k
  • Hiero 5 · 8.39/10k
  • Tobias (cod. Vat. et Alex.) 3 · 5.71/10k
  • On the Cavalry Commander 3 · 5.21/10k
  • Fragments 2 · 5.02/10k
  • Ion 2 · 4.99/10k
  • Symposium 8 · 4.58/10k
  • Economics 8 · 4.5/10k
  • Republic 38 · 4.28/10k
  • Agesilaus 3 · 4.08/10k

Densest 12 of 65 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

gaze at, behold, wonder, reconnoitred, do you see?

gaze at, behold, mostly with a sense of wonder, θηεῦντο μέγα ἔργον Il. 7.444, cf. Od. 2.13; λαοὶ δʼ αὖ θηεῦντό τε θάμβησάν τε Il. 23.728, cf. Hdt. 1.8, 11, etc.; θ. τὰ καλά Democr. 194; πάντες ὥσπερ ἄγαλμα ἐθεῶντο αὐτόν Pl. Chrm. 154c; θ. ὄμμασι E. Ion 232 (lyr.); ζητεῖ τὸ κακὸν τεθεᾶσθαι Ar. Th. 797 codd.; ἐθεᾶτο . . τὴν θέσιν τῆς πόλεως . . , ὡς ἔχοι reconnoitred it, Th. 5.7; θ. κύκλῳ τὴν πόλιν X. Cyr. 4.5.7: abs., θεᾷ; do you see? Men. Epit. 564.

2 contemplate

of the mind, contemplate, τὸ ἀληθές Pl. Phd. 84b, al.

b see clearly

see clearly, ἵνʼ ἴδητε καὶ θεάσησθε ὅτι . . D. 4.3, cf. Pl. Prt. 352a; with relat. clause, ὅση δεινότης ἦν ἐν τῷ Φιλίππῳ θεάσεσθε D. 18.144.

3 view as spectators, the spectators, onlookers, bystanders, to be spectators of

view as spectators, esp. in the theatre, Isoc. 4.44; οἱ θεώμενοι the spectators, Ar. Ra. 2, cf. Nu. 518, al. (but also, onlookers, bystanders, Antipho 3.3.7): metaph., θ. τὸν πόλεμον to be spectators of the war, Hdt. 8.116.

4 to review

θ. τὸ στράτευμα to review it, X. Cyr. 5.5.1.

II

Act. θεάω, late, Baillet Tombeaux des rois à Thèbes 1080: elsewh. in imper. θέα Them. Or. 3.44b, Jul. Ep. 89b, Hsch.: aor. ἐθεάθην in pass. sense, Ps.-Callisth. 2.42, Ev.Marc. 16.11, Ap.Ty. Ep. 49, Just. Nov. 133.3.1: pres. θεῶνται Philostr. Her. 2.9. (Orig. prob. θᾱϝέομαι and θᾱϝάομαι, cf. θαῦ-μα.)

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