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Ionic dialect θωμ-, Attic dialect future θαυμάσομαι [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 476, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 157, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Parmenides” 129c ] Refs 5th c.BC+], Epic dialect θαυμάσσομαι [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.467; also θαυμάσω 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ φύσιος παιδίου” 29, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.823f, etc. (in 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 5.2.12 θαυμάζουσι is restored for -σουσι, θαυμάσετε] Refs 8th c.BC+] is variant for{-σαιτε}, [[ [prev. author] “HG” 5.1.14)] Refs]: aorist ἐθαύμασα [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 772 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 4th c.BC+], etc., Epic dialect θαύμασα [[ “hymnus ad Mercurium” 414 ] Refs]: perfect τεθαύμακα [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.4.2, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—middle, [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus “ὅτι ὁ ἄριστος ἰατρὸς καὶ φιλόσοφος” 2 (variant), 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “Varia Historia” 12.30: ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]aorist 1 ἐθαυμασάμην variant in [[ 5th-4th c.BC: Aesopus Fabularum Scriptor 92 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὐκ ἂν θαυμας ώμεθα (to be read -σαίμεθα) [[ 5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “in Platonis Parmenidem commentarii” p.750S. ] Refs 5th c.AD+]; θαυμάσαιτο variant in [[ 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Bellum Judaicum” 3.5.1 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]:—passive, future -ασθήσομαι[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 6.105, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.41 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist ἐθαυμάσθην [[ [prev. author] 6.12 ] Refs]: perfect τεθαύμασμαι [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 4.82.1. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__1 absolutely, wonder, marvel, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.394, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Hp.Ma.” 282e, etc. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__2 with accusative, marvel at, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.631, etc.; πτόλεμόν τε μάχην τε 13.11; τύχη θαυμάσαι μὲν ἀξία 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 777, compare “OC” 1152, “El.” 393:] Refs 8th c.BC+] —passive, ὡς τέρας θ. [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.28 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μὴ παρὼν -άζεται I wonder why he is not present, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 289. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2.b honour, admire, worship, once in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus (but compare θαυμαίνω), οὔτε τι θαυμάζειν.. οὔτ᾽ ἀγάασθαι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 16.203; frequently later, as 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.80, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 772 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1093, etc.; θ. τύμβον πατρός 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 519; μηδὲ τὸν πλοῦτον μηδὲ τὴν δόξαν τὴν τούτων θαυμάζετε, ἀλλ᾽ ὑμᾶς αὐτούς 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.210 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; μηδὲν θ., Latin nil admirari, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.44b] Refs 1st c.AD+]; technically, of the attendance of small birds on the owl, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 609a15 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; θ. πρόσωπον to show respect to a person, i.e. comply with their request, [[ LXX.Gen.19.21 ] LXX]; θ. τινά τινος for a thing, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.36; θ. τινὰ ἐπὶ σοφίᾳ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 161c, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.4.2; ἀπὸ τοῦ σώματος τὸν νεανίσκον 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Romulus” 7 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:— passive, to be admired, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.204; ὑπό τινος [prev. author] 3.82; ἔν τινι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.39; τῶν προγεγενημένων μᾶλλον -θησόμεθα 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 6.105 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τοὺς ὁμοίως τεθαυμασμένους [ποιητάς] [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ ποιημάτων” 5.31; διά τι 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.59: with _genitive_, τῆς ῥώμης 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 7.42; χάρις δ᾽ ἀφ᾽ ἡμῶν ὀλομένων -άζεται 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 703 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰ εἰκότα θ. to receive proper marks of respect, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.38; θ. τινί [prev. author] 7.63. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2.c say with astonishment, ἵνα μηδεὶς.. εἶτα τότ᾽ οὐκ ἔλεγες ταῦτα..; θαυμάζῃ [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.25. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__3 with genitive, wonder at, marvel at, τούτου (conjecture for τοῦτο) [[ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 7.23 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: with participle, ὃ δ᾽ ἐθαύμασά σου λέγοντος [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 329c, compare “Cri.” 50c; θ. τῶν προθέντων αὖθις λέγειν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.38 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; θ. τί τινος to wonder at a thing in a person, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 1041; ὃ θ. τοῦ ἑταίρου 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 161b, compare “R.” 376a: with double _genitive_, θ. τούτου τῆς διανοίας 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 3.44:—these phrases are used in _Attic dialect_ as a civil mode of expressing dissent. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__4 rarely with dative of things, to wonder at, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.85. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__5 followed by Preps., τὰ -όμενα περί τινος [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 80c; θ. περί τινος τί τῇ τέχνῃ συμβάλλεται 3rd c.BC(?): Sosipater Comicus 1.37; ἐπί σου θαυμάζω, πῶς δύνῃ.. 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 23.5.12; θαυμάσονται ἐπ᾽ αὐτῇ LXX.Lev.26.32. ] LXX+5th c.BC+]
__6 frequently followed by an interrogative sentence, θαυμάζομεν οἷον ἐτύχθη [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.320; θ. ὅστις ἔσται ὁ ἀντερῶν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.38; θαυμάζοντες τί ἔσοιτο ἡ πολιτεία 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.3.17; θ. ὡς οὔπω πάρεισιν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.90, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.4.20, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; θ. ὅτι I wonder at the fact that.. , [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 489a; πολλάκις τεθαύμακα ὅπως.. “Comica Adespota” 22.46D. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; but more commonly, θ. εἰ.. I wonder if.. , as a more polite way of saying I wonder that.. , [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.155, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1140, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 97a; ἐὰν.. λέγω, μηδὲν θαυμάσῃς [prev. author] “Smp.” 215a; ὃ καὶ θαυμάζω, εἰ.. 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.86 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; θαύμαζον ἀκούων, εἰ σὺ μὴ εἴης.., Latin mirum ni.. , [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 1292 (hexameters).] Refs 5th c.BC+] —This construction is frequently combined with one or other of the {θαῦμα}.
__6.b with accusative, θαύμαζ᾽ Ἀχιλῆα, ὅσσος ἔην οἷός τε [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.629 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Τηλέμαχον θαύμαζον, ὃ θαρσαλέως ἀγόρευε they marvelled at Telemachus, that he spake so boldly, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.382 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; τὸ δὲ θαυμάζεσκον (Ionic dialect imperfect), ὡς.. [[ 19.229; θ. σοῦ γλῶσσαν, ὡς θρασύστομος 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1399, etc.] Refs 4th c.BC+]: sometimes without a connective, ἀλλὰ τὸ θαυμάζω· ἴδον.. [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.655; σοῦ.. θαυμάσας ἔχω τόδε· χρῆν γὰρ.. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1362 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: sometimes with infinitive, θαυμάζομεν Ἕκτορα δῖον, αἰχμητὴν ἔμεναι [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.601. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__6.c with genitive, θ. τινός, ἥντινα γνώμην ἔχων κτλ. [[ 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 1.5; θ. τῶν.. ἐχόντων ὅπως οὐ λέγουσιν 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 3.3; θ. αὐτοῦ τί τολμήσει λέγειν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 24.66; θαυμάζω τινὸς ὅτι.. 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.1 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; θ. τῶν δυναστευόντων εἰ ἡγοῦνται I wonder at men in power supposing, [[[prev. work]170] Refs]; ὑμῶν θ. εἰ μὴ βοηθήσετε [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.3.53; also θ. αὐτοῦ.. τοῦτο, ὡς.. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 89a. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__7 with accusative et infinitive, πενθεῖν οὔ σε θ. [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 268, cf. Alcaeus1130 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: after a genitive, θαυμάζω δέ σου.. κυρεῖν λέγουσαν [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1199. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
