The corpus record

θεωρ-ητός

theoretos

that may be seen

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Where it lives

Lives of Eminent Philosophers 5 · 0.47/10k

What it meant — LSJ

that may be seen, to be watched

that may be seen, D.S. 14.60; ὄψει θ. Ael. NA 9.4; θ. κατασκεύασμα Secund. Sent. 1; of certain days in disease, to be watched (cf. ἐπίδηλος II.1), Hp. Aph. 2.24.

2 to be reached by contemplation

of the mind, to be reached by contemplation, τοὺς διὰ λόγου θ. χρόνους Epicur. Ep. 1p.10U.; θεοὺς λόγῳ θ. Id. Fr. 355, cf. Phld. Sign. 37; opp. ἐμφανής, Plu. QConv. 2.722d; λόγῳ ib. 876c. Adv. -τῶς Gal. 18(1).363.

In the wild

θεωρητόν · theōrēton Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 8927)
θεωρητοὶ · theōrētoi Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 8948)
θεωρητοὺς · theōrētous Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 8946)
θεωρητούς · theōrētous Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 9310)
θεωρητοὺς · theōrētous Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 8888)

Where it came from

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