θεωρ-ία,
Ionic dialect θεωρίη, Doric dialect θεᾱρία (see. below), Boeotian dialect θιαωρία Ἐφ.Ἀρχ. 1892.34: ἡ:— sending of θεωροί or state-ambassadors to the oracles or games, or, collectively, the θεωροί themselves, embassy, mission, θεωρίαν ἀπάγειν εἰς Δῆλον [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 58b: _plural_, opposed to στρατεῖαι, [prev. author] “R.” 556c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἄγειν τῷ Διὶ τῷ Νεμείῳ τὴν κοινὴν ὑπὲρ τῆς πόλεως θ. [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.115, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 4.8.2, Decrees Byzantine cited in 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.91 (θεᾱρία), 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 28.19.4. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 office of θεωρός, discharge of that office, τῆς Ὀλυμπίαζε θ. [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.16, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 19.10, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II being a spectator at the theatre or games, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1491; οὔτ᾽ ἐπὶ θεωρίαν πώποτε ἐκ τῆς πόλεως ἐξῆλθες 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Crito” 52b; personified in 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 523, +others ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III viewing, beholding, θεωρίης εἵνεκεν ἐκδημεῖν to go abroad to see the world, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.30 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κατὰ θεωρίης πρόφασιν[[ [prev. work] 29; ἐκπέμπειν τινὰ κατ᾽ ἐμπορίαν καὶ κατὰ θεωρίαν 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 17.4, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 11.1, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.24 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; pilgrimage, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 1047. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]