A.“θεῇ” A.R.3.549 codd. (Hom. has dat. pl. θεῆς, θεῇσι, Il.3.158, 8.305), Lacon. σιά Ar.Lys. 1263(lyr.): fem. of θεός (q.v.) in Ep., Trag.(with imitations in Com., as Antiph.81, Eub.64), Att. in set phrases (v. infr.) and later Prose: —goddess, opp. γυνή, Il.14.315: with another Subst., “θ. μήτηρ” 1.280; “θεαὶ νύμφαι” 24.615; Παλλὰς θ. S.Ant.1184; “θεοὶ θεαί τε” A.Th.87(lyr.); “μὰ θεούς, μὰ θεάς” Pl.Smp.219c; “μὰ τοὺς θεοὺς καὶ τὰς θεάς” D.19.67; “τοῖς δώδεκα θεοῖς καὶ ταῖς σεμναῖς θεαῖς” IG22.112.9, cf. Antiph.206.2, Anaxandr.2; “τῷ θεῷ καὶ τῇ θεᾷ” IG12.76.39: in dual, of Demeter and Persephone, “μεγάλα θεά” S.OC683 (in earlier Att. τὼ θεώ, v. θεός）; αἱ “θεαί” IG22.661.28 (iii B.C.); αἱ σεμναὶ θ. the Erinyes, S.OC458, etc.; δειναί, ἀνώνυμοι θ., E.El.1270, IT944.
II. name of third τόπος, Vett. Val. 69.12, Paul.Al.L.3, cf. Cat.Cod.Astr.8(4).144. [^-, but sts. monosyll. in Trag., as E.Andr.978.]
