θεῖον,
__AEpic dialect θέειον (in [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.493 ] Refs 8th c.BC+] θήϊον), τό, brimstone, used to fumigate and purify, δέπας.. ἐκάθηρε θεείῳ [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.228; οἶσε θέειον.., κακῶν ἄκος 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.481 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; δεινὴ δὲ θεείου γίγνεται ὀδμή, from a thunderbolt, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.415 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐν δὲ θεείου πλῆτο, of a ship struck by lightning, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.417 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐμβαλόντες πῦρ ξὺν θ. [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.77, compare 4.100; Κύριος ἔβρεξεν ἐπὶ Σόδομα καὶ Γόμορρα θ. καὶ πῦρ LXX.Gen.19.24 ] LXX+5th c.BC+]; as a natural product, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Aër.” 7, 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.21, 143, 5th-4th c.BC: Timaeus Locrus Philosophus 99c; θ. ἄπυρον 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 12.903 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to πεπυρωμένον, [[ 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 5.107] Refs 1st c.AD+]; compare θεάφιον, θέαφος. (Perh. cognate with θύω, θυμιάω, Latin suffire.)