θεά, ἡ,
in later Epic dialect θεή [[ 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Dianam” 119 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+], dative θεῇ [[ 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 3.549 codices (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus has _dative_ _plural_ θεῆς, θεῇσι, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.158, 8.305)] Refs 8th c.BC+], Laconian dialect σιά [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 1263 (Lyric poetry): _feminine_ of θεός (which see)] Refs 5th c.BC+] in Epic dialect, Trag.(with imitations in Comedy texts, as [[ 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 81, 4th c.BC: Eubulus Comicus 64), _Attic dialect_ in set phrases (see. below)] Refs 4th c.BC+] and later Prose: —goddess, opposed to γυνή, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.315 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: with another substantive, θ. μήτηρ [[ 1.280; θεαὶ νύμφαι 24.615 ] Refs]; Παλλὰς θ. [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1184; θεοὶ θεαί τε 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 87 (Lyric poetry); μὰ θεούς, μὰ θεάς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 219c; μὰ τοὺς θεοὺς καὶ τὰς θεάς 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.67; τοῖς δώδεκα θεοῖς καὶ ταῖς σεμναῖς θεαῖς “IG” 22.112.9, compare 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 206.2, 4th c.BC: Anaxandrides Comicus 2; τῷ θεῷ καὶ τῇ θεᾷ “IG” 12.76.39: in dual, of Demeter and Persephone, μεγάλα θεά 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 683 (in earlier _Attic dialect_ τὼ θεώ, see at {θεός})] Refs 5th c.BC+]; αἱ θεαί [[ “IG” 22.661.28 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; αἱ σεμναὶ θ. the Erinyes, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 458, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; δειναί, ἀνώνυμοι θ., [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 1270, “IT” 944. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II name of third τόπος, Vett.[[ Val. 69.12, 4th c.AD: Paulus Alexandrinus Astrologus “L.” 3, compare “Catalogus Codicum Astrologorum” 8(4).144. [?~X-, but sometimes monosyllable in Trag., as 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 978.] ] Refs 5th c.BC+]