θεάομαι: Difference between revisions

|Definition=Ep. and Ion. [[θηέομαι]] (v. infr.), Dor. [[θαέομαι]], [[θάομαι]] ([[quod vide|qq.v.]]), imper.<br><span class="bld">A</span> θεῶ [[Aristophanes|Ar.]]''[[Acharnians|Ach.]]''262; opt. [[θηοῖο]] (for Att. [[θεῷο]]) Il.24.418; part. θηεύμενος [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]7.146: Ion. impf. [[ἐθηεῖτο]], [[ἐθηεῦντο]], Id.1.10, 3.136; Ep. [[θηεῖτο]] Od.5.75, etc., θηεῦντο Il.7.444, al., ἐθηεύμεσθα Od.9.218, ἐθεῆτο Hp.''Nat.Puer.''13, [[θηέσκετο]] Poet. ap. Parth.21.2: fut. θεάσομαι [ᾱ], Ion. <b class="b3">θεήσομαι</b>: aor. ἐθεᾱσάμην, Ep. opt. [[θηήσαιο]], [[θηήσαιτο]], Od.17.315, 5.74; 3pl. ἐθηήσαντο Euph.51.15; Ion. inf. [[θεήσασθαι]] ([[varia lectio|v.l.]] θεάσασθαι) [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]1.8: Att. pf. τεθέαμαι [[Xenophon|X.]]''[[Cyropaedia|Cyr.]]''7.5.7: codd. of [[Herodotus|Hdt.]] vary between <b class="b3">θεη-</b> and <b class="b3">θηη-</b>: a rare Ion. contr. of <b class="b3">θηη-</b> to <b class="b3">θη-</b> is found in θησαίατ' Od.18.191, θησάμενος ''IG''12.826:—[[gaze at]], [[behold]], mostly with a sense of [[wonder]], θηεῦντο μέγα ἔργον Il.7.444, cf. Od.2.13; λαοὶ δ' αὖ θηεῦντό τε θάμβησάν τε Il.23.728, cf. [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]1.8,''ΙΙ'', etc.; θ. τὰ καλά Democr.194; πάντες ὥσπερ ἄγαλμα ἐθεῶντο αὐτόν Pl.''Chrm.'' 154c; θ. ὄμμασι [[Euripides|E.]]''[[Ion]]'' 232 (lyr.); ζητεῖ τὸ κακὸν τεθεᾶσθαι Ar.''Th.''797 codd.; <b class="b3">ἐθεᾶτο… τὴν θέσιν τῆς πόλεως... ὡς ἔχοι</b> [[reconnoitre]]d it, Th.5.7; θ. κύκλῳ τὴν πόλιν [[Xenophon|X.]]''[[Cyropaedia|Cyr.]]''4.5.7: abs., [[θεᾷ]]; = [[do you see]]? Men.''Epit.'' 564.<br><span class="bld">2</span> of the mind, [[contemplate]], τὸ ἀληθές [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Phaedo|Phd.]]'' 84b, al.<br><span class="bld">b</span> [[see clearly]], ἵν' ἴδητε καὶ θεάσησθε ὅτι… D.4.3, cf. [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Protagoras|Prt.]]'' 352a; with relat. clause, ὅση δεινότης ἦν ἐν τῷ Φιλίππῳ θεάσεσθε D.18.144.<br><span class="bld">3</span> [[view]] as [[spectator]]s, especially in the [[theatre]], Isoc.4.44; οἱ [[θεώμενοι]] the [[spectator]]s, Ar.''Ra.''2, cf.''Nu.''518, al. (but also, [[onlooker]]s, [[bystander]]s, Antipho 3.3.7): metaph., <b class="b3">θεήσασθαι τὸν πόλεμον</b> to [[be spectators of the war]], [[Herodotus|Hdt.]] 8.116.<br><span class="bld">4</span> <b class="b3">θεῶμαι τὸ στράτευμα</b> to [[review]] the [[army]], [[Xenophon|X.]]''[[Cyropaedia|Cyr.]]''5.5.1.<br><span class="bld">II</span> Act. [[θεάω]], late, Baillet ''Tombeaux des rois à Thèbes'' 1080: elsewhere in imper. θέα Them.''Or.''3.44b, Jul.''Ep.''89b, [[Hesychius Lexicographus|Hsch.]]: aor. ἐθεάθην in pass. sense, Ps. -Callisth.2.42, ''Ev.Marc.''16.11, Ap.Ty.''Ep.''49, Just.''Nov.''133.3.1: pres. θεῶνται Philostr.''Her.''2.9. (Orig. prob. θᾱϝέομαι and θᾱϝάομαι, cf. [[θαῦμα]].)