θῦμα
ἢ τοὺς πότους ἐρεῖς δῆλον ὅτι καὶ τὰ δεῖπνα καὶ ἐσθῆτα καὶ ἀφροδίσια, καὶ δέδιας μὴ τούτων ἐνδεὴς γενόμενος ἀπόλωμαι. οὐκ ἐννοεῖς δὲ ὅτι τὸ μὴ διψῆν τοῦ πιεῖν πολὺ κάλλιον καὶ τὸ μὴ πεινῆν τοῦ φαγεῖν καὶ τὸ μὴ ῥιγοῦν τοῦ ἀμπεχόνης εὐπορεῖν; → There you'll go, talking of drinking and dining and dressing up and screwing, worrying I'll be lost without all that. Don't you realize how much better it is to have no thirst, than to drink? to have no hunger, than to eat? to not be cold, than to possess a wardrobe of finery? (Lucian, On Mourning 16)
English (LSJ)
ατος, τό, (θύω A)
A victim, sacrifice, SIG56.31 (Argos, v B.C.), A. Ag.1310, S.Ph.8,Ar.Av.901, Wilcken Chr.1 iii 3 (iii B.C.), etc.; τὸ θ. τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος Th.5.53; θ. θύειν, θύσασθαι, Pl.Plt.290e, R.378a, etc.; usu. of animals, but πάγκαρπα θ. offerings of all fruits, S.El.634; <ἁγνὰ> θ., opp. ἱερεῖα, expld. by Sch. as cakes in the form of animals, Th.1.126, cf. Pl.Lg.782c, Poll.1.26: prov., θ. Δελφόν 'Barmecide's feast', Call.Iamb.1.98. 2 pl., of animals slaughtered for food, LXX Ge.43.16. 3 metaph., of persons, θ. λεύσιμον, prob. of Clytemnestra, A.Ag.1118 (lyr.); πρόκεισθε θύματα τῆς ἡμετέρας ἐξουσίας Hdn.2.13.5. II act of sacrifice, ὧδ' ἦν τὰ κείνης θ. S.El.573. [θῠμα only Supp.Epigr.2.518 (Rome, iv A.D.), cf. Hdn.Gr.2.15.]
German (Pape)
[Seite 1222] τό, das Geopferte, nach Phot. zunächst vom Weihrauch, ἐφέστια Aesch. Ag. 1310, πάγκαρπα Soph. El. 624; dann von Thieren, u. übh. Opfer, Ant. 903; neben λοιβή Phil. 8; neben εὐχαί O. R. 239 u. öfter, wie Plat. Legg. X, 888 c; θύεσθαι Rep. II, 578 a; Legg. VI, 782 c θύματα οὐκ ἦν τοῖς θεοῖς ζῷα, πέλανοι δὲ καὶ μέλιτι καρποὶ δεδευμένοι καὶ τοιαῦτα ἄλλα ὁγνὰ θύματα; – θῦμα ποιεῖν, hinopfern, Gaet. 5 (VII, 354).
