θαυμάσιος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[ᾰ], α, ον, Ion. [[θωμάσιος]], rarely ος, ον Luc.''Im.''19: (v. [[θαῦμα]]):—<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[wonderful]], [[marvellous]], ὄσσα ''h.Merc.''443; [[χάρις]] Hes.''Th.''584 (nisi neut. pl.); [ὁδὸς] θωμασιωτέρη [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]2.21; [[θωμάσια]] = [[wonder]]s, [[marvel]]s, ib.35: Sup. θαυμασώτατα Id.6.47; θαυμάσια ἐργάζεσθαι Pl.''Smp.''220a; <b class="b3">ἧττον θαυμαστά, καίπερ ὄντα θαυμάσια</b> [[less]] [[admired]], [[though]] [[admirable]], Plu.2.974d: c. inf., [[τέρας]] θ. προσιδέσθαι Pi.''P.''1.26; <b class="b3">οὐ θαυμάσιόν [ἐστι]</b> c. inf., Ar.''Th.''468; ἔστιν δὲ… τοῦτο… θ., ὅπως… Id.''Pl.''340; <b class="b3">θαυμάσιος τοῦ κάλλους</b> [[marvellous]] for [[beauty]], X.''An.''2.3.9; πρὸς τὴν τόλμαν θαυμασώτατε Aeschin.3.152: with interrog., <b class="b3">θαυμάσιον ὅσον</b> [[exceedingly]], Pl.''Smp.'' 217a; θαυμάσι' ἡλίκα D.19.24; <b class="b3">τὸ θαυμασώτατον</b> what is [[most wonderful]], D.S.1.63.<br><span class="bld">2</span> Adv. [[θαυμασίως]] = [[wonderfully]], i.e. [[exceedingly]], Ar.''Nu.'' 1240: freq. with <b class="b3">ὡς, θαυμάσιος ὡς ἄθλιος</b> [[marvellously]] [[wretched]], Pl.''Grg.''471a; [[θαυμασίως]] ἂν ὡς ηὐλαβούμην = I [[should]] be [[wonderfully]] [[cautious]], D.29.1.<br><span class="bld">3</span> [[disposed to wonder]], in Adv., ὧν οὐ [[θαυμασίως]] γ' ἔχουσι Hp.''Morb.Sacr.'' 1.<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[admirable]], [[excellent]], with slight [[irony]], Pl.''Phdr.''242a, D. 19.113: freq. ὦ θαυμάσιε Pl.''R.''435c, al.; <b class="b3">ὦ θαυμασώτατε ἄνθρωπε</b>, in [[scorn]], X.''An.''3.1.27.<br><span class="bld">III</span> <b class="b3">θαυμάσιον καὶ ἄλογον</b> [[strange]] and [[absurd]], Pl.''Grg.'' 496a; <b class="b3">θαυμάσια… ἐργαζομένους</b> behaving [[in an extraordinary manner]], Id.''Ap.''35a.