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|Definition=ες, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[portentous]], [[prodigious]], <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Nu.</span>364</span>; <b class="b3">σοφία τ</b>. <span class="bibl">X. <span class="title">Ep.</span>1</span>; also of men, τερατώδης εἰς σοφίαν <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Euthd.</span>296e</span>; τὸ τερατῶδες <span class="bibl">Arist. <span class="title">Po.</span>1453b9</span>; τ. ἀναπλασμοί Metrod.<span class="title">Herc.</span>831.5, cf. <span class="bibl">Jul.<span class="title">Or.</span>7.206c</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> [[monstrous]], of strange births ([[τέρας]] <span class="bibl">11.2</span>), <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">GA</span>772a36</span>, al., <span class="bibl">Sor. 2.55</span>; <b class="b3">τὰ τερατώδη</b> <span class="bibl">Phld.<span class="title">Sign.</span>7</span>; <b class="b3">τ. ζῴδια</b>, viz. Pisces, Cancer, Scorpio, Capricorn, <span class="title">Cat.Cod.Astr.</span>1.166: Sup., τερατωδεστάτη [[ὄψις]] <span class="bibl">Ph.2.99</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Phld. <span class="title">Mort.</span>38</span>. Adv. [[τερατωδῶς]], opp. [[κατὰ φύσιν]], <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>496b18</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">D.S.1.26</span>.</span>