θηρ-ευτής, οῦ, ὁ,
hunter, used by [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus (only in 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad”) always as ] Refs 8th c.BC+] adjective, κύνεσσι καὶ ἀνδράσι θηρευτῇσιν hounds and huntsmen, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.41; ἐν κυσὶ θηρευτῇσι 11.325; so θ. ἄνδρες 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 303, 388; κύνες 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 1254, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Agesilaus” 9.6 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: as substantive, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.123, 1st c.BC(?): Satyrus Epigrammaticus “Vit.Eur.fragment” 39] Refs 5th c.BC+] XXi14; of a fisher, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.70 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; θ. πέρδιξ a decoy partridge, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 614a10; θ. ἰξός ] Refs 4th c.BC+]birdlime, [[ Anthologia Graeca 5.99. ] Refs]
__2 metaphorically, θ. νέων καὶ πλουσίων [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 231d, cf. Chor. p.67 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus; καλλίστων ὀνομάτων 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 3.122c. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]