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θεῖος, α, ον:
__Alate Epic dialect θέειος [[ 5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “Hymni” 2.16 ] Refs 5th c.AD+]; θεήϊος [[ 2nd c.BC: Bion Bucolicus “fragment” 15.9 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; late Aeolic dialect θήϊος [[ “epigram Gr.” 989.4 (from Balbilla)] Refs]; Laconian dialect σεῖος (see. below 1.3): comparative and superlative θειότερος, -ότατος, frequently in [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus, “Phdr.” 279a, “Mx.” 244d, +others] Refs 5th c.BC+]: (θεός):
__1 of or from the gods, divine, γένος [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.180; ὀμφή 2.41 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Ὄνειρος[[ [prev. work] 22; ἐπιπνοίαις 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 577, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 499c; μάστιξ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 682; μανία 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 611 (Lyric poetry); νόσος [prev. work] 185 (Lyric poetry) (but θ. νόσος] Refs 5th c.BC+], of a dust-storm, [[ [prev. author] “Ant.” 421); κίνδυνοι 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.139 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; θ. τινὶ μοίρᾳ by divine intervention, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 7.5.10; θ. τύχῃ γεγονώς 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.126; θ. τύχῃ χρεώμενος [prev. author] 3.139 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; θ. κἀπόνῳ τύχῃ, of an easy death, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1585; ἐκ θ. τύχης [prev. author] “Ph.” 1326; ἔμαθε ὡς θ. εἴη τὸ πρῆγμα 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.69; ὁ θ. νόμος 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.82 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; φύσις θ. [[ “SIG” 1125.8 (from Eleusis), cf. NT.2Pet.1.4 ] NT]; appointed of God, βασιλῆες [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.691 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; σκῆπτρον given by God, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 139 (Lyric poetry); see below 2. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 belonging or sacred to a god, holy, ἀγών, χορός, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.298, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.264 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; under divine protection, πύργος, δόμος, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.526, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.43 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of heralds and bards, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.192, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.17, +others] Refs 8th c.BC+]; so perhaps, of kings,[[[prev. work] 691. ] Refs]
__3 morethan human, of heroes, Ὀδυσσεύς [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.335, +others, 5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 144.4 (Lyric poetry); θ. ἀνήρ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 6.38, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1548 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 331e, “Men.” 99d (especially at Sparta (_Laconian dialect_ σεῖος), 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1145a29 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὦ θεῖε (in the mouth of a Spartan) [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 626c); μετὰ σοῦ τῆς θείας κεφαλῆς [prev. author] “Phdr.” 234d, compare 4th c.AD: Themistius Sophista “Orationes” 9.128a, 4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Orationes” 19.66. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3.b of things, excellent, θεῖον ποτόν [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.341, 9.205; ἁλὸς θείοιο 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.214 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; θ. πρήγματα marvellous things, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.66; ἐν τοῖσι θειότατον [prev. author] 7.137. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__4 = Latin divinus (or sacer), [[ “Imperial”, διατάξεις probably in “BGU” 473.5 (200 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus), etc.; θησαυροί “PLips.” 62ii14 (4th c.AD)] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; θ. ὅρκος oath by the Emperor, [[ POxy. 83.6 (4th c.AD), etc.] Refs 4th c.AD+]; θειότατος, of living Emperors, [[ “Inscription Prien.” 105.22 (1st c.BC), etc. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__4.b = Latin divus, of deified Emperors, θ. Σεβαστός Edict.Claud. cited in [[ 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 19.5.3, compare “Inscription Perg.” 283 (3rd c.AD), 6th c.AD: Lydus, Joannes Laurentius Historicus “Mag.” 2.3. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__II as substantive, θεῖον, τό, the Divinity, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.32, 3.108, +others, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 958 (Lyric poetry); τοῦ θ. χάριν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.70 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡμαρτηκότα εἰς τὸ θ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 242c. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 in an abstract sense, divinity, κεκοινώνηκε.. τοῦ θ. [[[prev. work] 246d ] Refs]; ἢ μόνον μετέχει τοῦ θ..., ἢ μάλιστα [ἄνθρωπος] [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 656a8, etc.] Refs 4th c.BC+]; κατὰ θεῖον or κατά τι θ., [[ 5th-6th c.AD: Aeneas Gazaeus Rhetor “Theophrastus” p.37 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus, p.4 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.3 θεῖα, τά, the acts of the gods, course of providence, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 452, etc.; τὰ θ. θνητοὺς ὄντας εὐπετῶς φέρειν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 585; τὰ θ. μὴ φαύλως φέρειν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 961. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.3.b matters of religion, ἔρρει τὰ θ. religion is no more, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 910 (Lyric poetry), compare “OC” 1537, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.8.2, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.3.c inquiries concerning the divine, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 232c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰ φανερὰ τῶν θείων, i.e. the heavenly bodies, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1026a18, compare “GA” 731b24, “Ph.” 196a33 (_superlative_), “EN” 1141b1. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__III adverb θείως by divine providence, θ. πως [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.2.1, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; θειοτέρως by special providence, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.122; μᾶλλόν τι καὶ -ότερον [prev. work] 174. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III.2 divinely, excellently, εὖ γε καὶ θ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 154d; θείως εἰρῆσθαι 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1074b9. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
