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θηρῐ-ώδης

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full of wild beasts, infested by them

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Where it lives

Nicomachean Ethics 12 · 2.13/10k
Machabaeorum II 2 · 1.73/10k
Suppliants 1 · 1.42/10k
Trojan Women 1 · 1.41/10k
Machabaeorum IV 1 · 1.3/10k
On Hunting 1 · 1.1/10k
Discourses 8 · 1.08/10k
Orestes 1 · 1.02/10k
Histories 13 · 0.71/10k
Statesman 1 · 0.59/10k
Cratylus 1 · 0.56/10k
Republic 5 · 0.56/10k

Densest 12 of 19 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

full of wild beasts, infested by them, full of ravenous fishes

full of wild beasts, infested by them, of countries, ἡ θ. Λιβύη Hdt. 4.181; ὄρεα -έστατα Id. 1.110; ἐν τῇ θ. [χώρῃ] Id. 4.174, cf. 2.32; -εστάτης ἐούσης τῆς θαλάσσης ταύτης full of ravenous fishes, Id. 6.44.

II savage

of beasts, savage, Arist. PA 663a13; ἐπὶ τὸ -έστερον Id. HA 502b4; τὸ θ., of a colt, E. Tr. 671.

2 brutal, brutality

of men and manners, brutal, δίαιτα Hp. VM 3; [βίοτος] E. Supp. 202, cf. SIG 704E 11 (Delph., ii B.C.); ἡδονή Pl. R. 591c; βρίμωσις Phld. Ir. p.58W.; κατάστασις OGI 424.3 (Palestine, i A.D.); ὁ θ. ἐν τοῖς ἀνθρώποις σπάνιος Arist. EN 1145a30; οἱ Λάκωνες . . θηριώδεις ἀπεργάζονται [τοὺς παῖδας] Id. Pol. 1338b12; ἡ θ. ἕξις Id. EN 1145a24: Comp. -έστερος, ἄνθρωπος Plb. 30.12.3; τὸ θ. brutality, Pl. Cra. 394e, al. Adv. -ωδῶς, διακεῖσθαι πρὸς ἀλλήλους Isoc. 11.25, cf. Plb. 15.20.3.

ζῴδια θ.,= θηριόμορφα, Ptol. Tetr. 200.

III malignant

Medic., malignant, of ulcers, Phld. Ir. p.44W., Dsc. 2.108, Plu. Superst. 2.165e, Aret. SA 2.8; also of intestinal worms, Hp. Epid. 6.1.11, 6.2.11.

In the wild

θηριώδεις · thēriōdeis Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1118a (DIORISIS sentence 1005)
θηριῶδες · thēriōdes Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1118b (DIORISIS sentence 1013)
θηριώδει · thēriōdei Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1145a (DIORISIS sentence 2232)
θηριώδης · thēriōdēs Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1145a (DIORISIS sentence 2234)
θηριώδεις · thēriōdeis Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1148b (DIORISIS sentence 2356)
θηριώδεις · thēriōdeis Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1148b (DIORISIS sentence 2355)

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