θήρα

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Transliteration A: thḗra Transliteration B: thēra Transliteration C: thira Beta Code: qh/ra

English (LSJ)

Ion. θήρη, ἡ,

   A hunting of wild beasts, the chase, βάν ῥ' ἴμεν ἐς θήρην Od.19.429; αἵμονα θήρης Il.5.49; ἰέναι ἐπὶ τὴν θήρην Hdt.1.37, 4.114, cf. Ar.Fr.2 D.; ζῶσι ἀπὸ θ. Hdt.4.22, cf. Arist.Pol.1256a35; ἐποίησε μεγάλην θήραν X.Cyr.1.4.14; θ. ποιεῖσθαι Arist.HA541a20; τὰς θ. τῶν ὀρτύγων ἐποιοῦντο D.S.1.60; τοῦ πτηνοῦ γένους θ., = ὀρνιθευτική, Pl.Sph.220b; ἡ περὶ θάλατταν θ. fishing, Id.Lg.823d; κυνηγεσία καὶ ἡ ἄλλη θ. ib.763b: pl., πέρδικες εἰς τὰς θ. ἀγόμεναι, of decoy birds, Arist.GA751a14, cf. Phld.Ir.p.42 W., Ant.Lib.41.2.    b in Ptolemaic Egypt, στρατηγὸς ἐπὶ τὴν θ. τῶν ἐλεφάντων OGI82, 86 (iii B.C.), cf. Str.16.4.5,7, Wilcken Chr.385.14 (iii B.C.), PPetr.3p.292 (iii B.C.), etc.    2 metaph., eager pursuit of anything, θήραν . . ἔχομεν τόξων, = θηρῶμεν τὰ τόξα, S.Ph.840; δυσμενῶν θήραν ἔχειν Id.Aj.564; θ. ἀνθρώπων Pl.Sph.222b, 222c; τοῦ ἡδέος Id.Grg.500d; ἐπιστημῶν Id.Tht.198a, etc.    II prey, game, αἶψα δ' ἔδωκε θεὸς μενοεικέα θήρην Od.9.158, cf. A.Ch.251, E.Ba.1144; πρὶν κινεῖσθαι τὴν θ. X. Cyr.2.4.25; θήραν καλήν, of a prisoner, S.Ph.609: in pl., ὦ πταναὶ θῆραι, of birds, ib.1146 (lyr.); τὴν θ. ἐπὶ τοῦ μέσου τηροῦσα watching its prey, of a spider, Arist.HA623a13.    III hunting-ground, preserve, Ἁδριανοῦ θῆραι D.C.69.10.    IV in Roman times, the games of the Circus, Epigr.Gr.351.3 (Nicaea).

German (Pape)

[Seite 1208] ἡ, ion. θήρη, die Jagd, das Jagen des Wildes, Il. 5,. 49 u. öfter, u. Folgde, ἡ περὶ θάλατταν θ. u. πτηνῶν Plat. Legg. VII, 822 d e, κυνηγέσια καὶ τὴν ἄλλην θήραν Legg. VI, 763 b; θήραν ποιεῖν Xen. Cyr. 1,.4, 14, ἐπὶ θήραν ἐξιέναι 1. 2, 9, öfter. – Auch wie bei uns für Jagdbeute, ἔδωκε θεὸς μενοεικέα θήρην Od. 9, 158, vgl. Aesch. Ch. 249, θήρα καλή, ein schöner Fang, von einem Menschen, Soph. Phil. 605; Eur. Bacch. 1142; Xen. Hell. 4, 1, 15; das Wild, Cyr. 2, 3, 25. – Uebertr., ἀνθρώπων, τῶν ἐρώντων, Plat. Soph. 222 c. δυσμενῶν θήραν ἔχων Soph. Ai. 561. Phil. 828 τόξων, übh. eifriges Streben, Trachten wonach, τοῦ ἡδέος, ἐπιστημῶν, Plat. Gorg. 500 d Theaet. 198 a; Sp.