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|Definition=ὁ,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[store]], [[treasure]], [[Aristophanes|Ar.]]''[[The Birds|Av.]]''599, etc.; <b class="b3">θησαυρὸς χθονός</b>, of the silvermines of Laureion, [[Aeschylus|A.]]''[[The Persians|Pers.]]''238 (troch.); θησαυρὸν εὑρεῖν Arist.''Pol.''1303b35; [[ἄνθρακες ὁ θησαυρός]], [[proverb|prov.]], '[[apples of Sodom]]', freq. in Luc.''Zeux.''2, al.; σποδὸς οἱ θ. γενήσονται Alciphr.2.3.13: metaph., θησαυρὸς γλώσσης φειδωλῆς Hes.''Op.''719; θ. ὕμνων Pi.''P.''6.8; κακῶν [[Euripides|E.]]''[[Ion]]''923, cf. Hp.''Lex''; <b class="b3">κόμας... ἱκτήριον θ.</b> [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Ajax|Aj.]]''1175; <b class="b3">Διὸς θησαυρός</b>, of a [[tomb]] marking the fall of a [[thunderbolt]], E.''Supp.''1010; <b class="b3">οἰωνοῖς γλυκὺν θ.</b>, of a dead body, S.''Ant.'' 30; of learning, θ., οὓς κατέλιπον ἐν βιβλίοις [[Xenophon|X.]]''[[Memorabilia|Mem.]]''1.6.14; <b class="b3">σοφίας θησαυρός</b> [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Philebus|Phlb.]]'' 15e, ''Ep.Col.''2.3; χρημάτων καὶ τιμῶν Pl.''Mx.''247b; καλὸς θησαυρὸς παρ' ἀνδρὶ σπουδαίῳ χάρις Isoc.1.29; ἐκ τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ θ. τῆς καρδίας ''Ev.Luc.''6.45.<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[strong-room]], [[magazine]], [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]2.150, ''SIG''419.17 (Delph., iii B.C.), [[LXX]] ''De.''32.34, etc.; especially of the [[treasuries]] built at Delphi by Greek cities, ''SIG''8 (vi B.C.), [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]1.14, al., X.''An.''5.3.5, Str.4.1.13, etc.; [[vaults]] of a bank, ''PLips.''62ii 14 (iv A.D.).<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[granary]], PCair.Zen.232.4 (iii B.C.), Wilcken ''Chr.''385.27 (iii B.C.), 192 (i A.D.), etc.; <b class="b3">οἱ δημόσιοι θησαυροί</b> ''PRyl.''90.9 (iii A.D.), cf. ''[[Oxyrhynchus Papyri|POxy.]]''2119.3 (iii A.D.).<br><span class="bld">3</span> [[receptacle]] for valuables, [[safe]], [[casket]], [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]7.190, 9.106, ''Ev.Matt.''2.11; <b class="b3">θησαυρὸς βελέεσσιν</b>, of a [[quiver]], [[Aeschylus|A.]]''[[The Persians|Pers.]]''1022 (lyr.).<br><span class="bld">4</span> [[offertory-box]] (for its form, v. ''IG''9(2).590), ''IG''7.235.23 (Oropus, iv B.C.), 12(3).443 (Thera, iii B.C.), ''Jahrb.''16.162 note 13 (Rhodes, iii B.C.), ''Schwyzer''89 (Argos, iii B.C.), ''SIG''1015.30 (Halic.), ''PTeb.''6.27 (ii B.C.), ''IG''5(1).1390.89 (Andania, i B.C.); [[σπονδεῖον]] ἢ θ. = [[coin-in-the-slot machine]] which sold [[holy]] [[water]], Hero ''Spir.''1.21.<br><span class="bld">5</span> [[cavern]], S.''Ichn.''276; [[subterranean]] [[dungeon]], Plu.''Phil.''19.