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θεωρ-ικός

theorikos

of, for θεωρία, festal

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Where it lives

  • Suppliants 1 · 1.42/10k
  • Athenian Constitution 2 · 1.23/10k

What it meant — LSJ

of, for θεωρία, festal, used by the θεωροί

of or for θεωρία (signfs. I and II), πεπλώματʼ οὐ θεωρικά no festal robes, E. Supp. 97; θ. σκηνή the tent used by the θεωροί, Henioch. 5.8; θ. ὁδός,= θεωρίς I.2, Poll. 2.55. Adv. -κῶς Hsch.

II fund for providing free seats at public spectacles, fund for festivals

θεωρικόν, τό (θεωρικός, ὁ, seems to be an error in Phld. Rh. 2.208 S.), at Athens, fund for providing free seats at public spectacles, οἱ ἐπὶ τὸ θ. Arist. Ath. 43.1, cf. 47.2, D. 18.113, IG 2(2).223C5; ἡ ἀρχὴ ἡ ἐπὶ τῷ θ. Aeschin. 3.24: pl. (sc. χρήματα), D. 3.11, Harp., etc., cf. Plu. Per. 9: so elsewh. θεωρικά, with or without χρήματα, fund for festivals, POxy. 1333 (ii/iii A.D.), 473.4 (ii A.D.).

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