θεός: Difference between revisions

|mdlsjtxt=![[θεός]], ὁ,<br /><b class="num">I.</b> God, Hom., [[both]] in [[general]] [[sense]], Θεὸς δώσει God [[will]] [[grant]], and in [[particular]] [[sense]], [[θεός]] τις a god; πατὴρ [[ἀνδρῶν]] τε [[θεῶν]] τε Hom.:—things are said to [[happen]] σὺν θεῷ, σύν γε θεοῖσιν by the [[will]] of God, Hom., etc.; οὐκ [[ἄνευ]] θεοῦ, Lat. non [[sine]] diis, Od.; οὐκ [[ἄνευθε]] θεοῦ Il.; οὐ [[θεῶν]] [[ἄτερ]] Pind.;— ἐκ θεόφι Il.;— [[ὑπὲρ]] θεόν [[against]] his [[will]], Il.;— κατὰ θεόν τινα, Lat. [[divinitus]], Eur.:—as an [[oath]], πρὸς [[θεῶν]] by the gods, in God's [[name]], Trag.; θεὸς [[ἴστω]] Soph., etc.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> [[θεός]] as fem. for θεά, [[θέαινα]], a [[goddess]], Hom.; θήλεια [[θεός]] Il.; ἡ νερτέρα θ. [[Proserpine]], Soph.; often in oaths, νὴ τὼ θεώ Soph.; ναὶ τὼ σιώ, with the Spartans, of [[Castor]] and [[Pollux]], Xen.; with the Boeotians, of [[Amphion]] and [[Zethus]], Xen.<br /><b class="num">III.</b> as adj. in comp. [[θεώτερος]], [[more]] [[divine]], θύραι θ. doors [[more]] used by the gods, Od.