1. Θήρα · Thēra
Thera, from Thera, to Thera
the island Thera, Pi. P. 4.20, etc.:—hence Θήρᾱθε, from Thera, Abh.Berl.Akad. 1925(5).20: Θήρανδε, to Thera, ib. 21.
The corpus record
θήρα
thera · ἡ
Thera, from Thera, to Thera
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Where it lives
- Nahum 3 · 32.5/10k
- Sophist 13 · 8.12/10k
- On Hunting 7 · 7.69/10k
- Osee 2 · 5.31/10k
- Cyropaedia 35 · 4.44/10k
- Constitution of the Lacedaemonians 2 · 4.11/10k
- Bacchae 3 · 3.99/10k
- Philoctetes 3 · 3.41/10k
- Amos 1 · 3.25/10k
- Genesis 9 · 3/10k
- Libation Bearers 1 · 1.86/10k
- Proverbia 2 · 1.8/10k
Densest 12 of 36 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant — LSJ
2. θήρα · thēra
hunting of wild beasts, the chase, fishing
hunting of wild beasts, the chase, βάν ῥʼ ἴμεν ἐς θήρην Od. 19.429; αἵμονα θήρης Il. 5.49; ἰέναι ἐπὶ τὴν θήρην Hdt. 1.37, 4.114, cf. Ar. Fr. 2 D.; ζῶσι ἀπὸ θ. Hdt. 4.22, cf. Arist. Pol. 1256a35; ἐποίησε μεγάλην θήραν X. Cyr. 1.4.14; θ. ποιεῖσθαι Arist. HA 541a20; τὰς θ. τῶν ὀρτύγων ἐποιοῦντο D.S. 1.60; τοῦ πτηνοῦ γένους θ., = ὀρνιθευτική, Pl. Sph. 220b; ἡ περὶ θάλατταν θ. fishing, Id. Lg. 823d; κυνηγεσία καὶ ἡ ἄλλη θ. ib. 763b: pl., πέρδικες εἰς τὰς θ. ἀγόμεναι, of decoy birds, Arist. GA 751a14,
b
in Ptolemaic Egypt, στρατηγὸς ἐπὶ τὴν θ. τῶν ἐλεφάντων OGI 82, 86 (iii B.C.), cf. Str. 16.4.5, 7, Wilcken Chr. 385.14 (iii B.C.), PPetr. 3p.292 (iii B.C.), etc.
2 eager pursuit
metaph., eager pursuit of anything, θήραν . . ἔχομεν τόξων, = θηρῶμεν τὰ τόξα, S. Ph. 840; δυσμενῶν θήραν ἔχειν Id. Aj. 564; θ. ἀνθρώπων Pl. Sph. 222b, 222c; τοῦ ἡδέος Id. Grg. 500d; ἐπιστημῶν Id. Tht. 198a, etc.
II prey, game, prey
prey, game, αἶψα δʼ ἔδωκε θεὸς μενοεικέα θήρην Od. 9.158, cf. A. Ch. 251, E. Ba. 1144; πρὶν κινεῖσθαι τὴν θ. X. Cyr. 2.4.25; θήραν καλήν, of a prisoner, S. Ph. 609: in pl., ὦ πταναὶ θῆραι, of birds, ib. 1146 (lyr.); τὴν θ. ἐπὶ τοῦ μέσου τηροῦσα watching its prey, of a spider, Arist. HA 623a13.
III hunting-ground, preserve
hunting-ground, preserve, Ἁδριανοῦ θῆραι D.C. 69.10.
IV the games of the Circus
in Roman times, the games of the Circus, Epigr.Gr. 351.3 (Nicaea).
In the wild
- θήραν · thēran Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 250–251
- θήρας · thēras Aristotle, Politics 1256a (DIORISIS sentence 169)
- θήρας · thēras Aristotle, Politics 1256a (DIORISIS sentence 169)
- θήραν · thēran Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 6.2 (DIORISIS sentence 4929)
- θήραν · thēran Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 6.2 (DIORISIS sentence 5094)
- θήρῃ · thērēi Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 8.1 (DIORISIS sentence 7293)
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Where it came from
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