The corpus record

θηρευτής

thereutes · ὁ

hunter, huntsmen, a fisher

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Where it lives

Shield of Heracles 2 · 6.18/10k
Lysis 2 · 2.88/10k
Sophist 2 · 1.25/10k
Symposium 1 · 0.57/10k
Siracides 1 · 0.54/10k
Timaeus 1 · 0.42/10k
Jeremias 1 · 0.36/10k
Psalmi 1 · 0.29/10k
Histories 2 · 0.11/10k
Republic 1 · 0.11/10k
Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k
Enneads 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant — LSJ

hunter, huntsmen, a fisher, a decoy, birdlime

hunter, used by Hom. (only in Il.) always as Adj., κύνεσσι καὶ ἀνδράσι θηρευτῇσιν hounds and huntsmen, Il. 12.41; ἐν κυσὶ θηρευτῇσι 11.325; so θ. ἄνδρες Hes. Sc. 303, 388; κύνες Thgn. 1254, X. Ages. 9.6: as Subst., Hdt. 1.123, Satyr. Vit.Eur.Fr. 39 XXi 14; of a fisher, Hdt. 2.70; θ. πέρδιξ a decoy partridge, Arist. HA 614a10; θ. ἰξός birdlime, AP 5.99.

metaph., θ. νέων καὶ πλουσίων Pl. Sph. 231d, cf. Chor. p.67 B. [26.2.59]; καλλίστων ὀνομάτων Ath. 3.122c.

In the wild

θηρευτῇ · thēreutēi Herodotus, Histories 1.123.4 (DIORISIS sentence 905)
θηρευτὴς · thēreutēs Herodotus, Histories 2.70.2 (DIORISIS sentence 2048)
θηρευταί · thēreutai Shield of Heracles 302–305
θηρευτῇς · thēreutēis Shield of Heracles 386–391
θηρευτῇσι · thēreutēisi Iliad 11.325
θηρευτὴς · thēreutēs Plato, Lysis 206

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