θέᾱτρον,
Ionic dialect θέητρον, τό, (θεάομαι) place for seeing, especiallyfor dramatic representation, theatre, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.67, “IG” 22.1176, +others] Refs 5th c.BC+]; as a place of assembly, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.93, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 13.32, “SIG” 976.4 (Samos, 2nd c.BC), 2nd-1st c.BC: Posidonius Historicus 36 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus, NT.Act.19.20, etc.] NT+5th c.BC+]; θ. κυνηγετικόν, of the Roman amphitheatre, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 43.22 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; εἰς τὸ θ. εἰσφέρειν to bring upon the stage, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 12.122 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ καλὸν τοῦ θ. a good place in the theatre, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “Varia Historia” 2.13, compare 4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus 3.20. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__2 collective for οἱ θεαταί, the spectators, 'the house', [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.21, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 233, +others, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 194b, “Comica Adespota” 3D.: _metaphorically_, ἐκάθηντο θέατρον αὐτῷ 4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Epistulae” 722.4. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 ={θέαμα}, spectacle, θ. ἐγενήθημεν τῷ κόσμῳ [[ NT.1Cor.4.9. ] NT]
__4 metaphorically, of life, τουτὶ τὸ θ. ὑπεκρίθημεν [[ 3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus “ad Marcellam - Porphyrii Opuscula” 2. ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]