θήρα,
Ionic dialect θήρη, ἡ, hunting of wild beasts, the chase, βάν ῥ᾽ ἴμεν ἐς θήρην [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.429; αἵμονα θήρης 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.49; ἰέναι ἐπὶ τὴν θήρην 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.37, 4.114, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 2 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ζῶσι ἀπὸ θ. [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.22, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1256a35; ἐποίησε μεγάλην θήραν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.4.14; θ. ποιεῖσθαι 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 541a20; τὰς θ. τῶν ὀρτύγων ἐποιοῦντο 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 1.60 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τοῦ πτηνοῦ γένους θ., ={ὀρνιθευτική}, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 220b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ περὶ θάλατταν θ. fishing, [[ [prev. author] “Lg.” 823d; κυνηγεσία καὶ ἡ ἄλλη θ. [prev. work] 763b: _plural_, πέρδικες εἰς τὰς θ. ἀγόμεναι, of decoy birds, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Generatione Animalium” 751a14, compare 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Ir.” p.42 W., 2nd c.AD(?): Antoninus Liberalis Mythographus 41.2. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__b in Ptolemaic Egypt, στρατηγὸς ἐπὶ τὴν θ. τῶν ἐλεφάντων [[ “OGI” 82, 86 (3rd c.BC),compare 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 16.4.5, 7, Wilcken “Chr.” 385.14 (3rd c.BC), “PPetr.” 3p.292 (3rd c.BC), etc. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__2 metaphorically, eager pursuit of anything, θήραν.. ἔχομεν τόξων, ={θηρῶμεν τὰ τόξα}, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 840; δυσμενῶν θήραν ἔχειν [prev. author] “Aj.” 564; θ. ἀνθρώπων 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 222b, 222c; τοῦ ἡδέος [prev. author] “Grg.” 500d; ἐπιστημῶν [prev. author] “Tht.” 198a, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]