A.quick, nimble, epith. of Ares and warriors, Il.5.430, 571, 16.422, 494, etc.: c. inf., “θ. μάχεσθαι” 5.536; of things, “χείρ” 12.306; “βέλος” Od.22.83; “ἅρμα” Il.17.458; μάστιξ ib. 430; “νῆες” 14.410, etc.; “νηυσὶ θοῇσι . . πεποιθότες ὠκείῃσι” Od.7.34; νύξ swift night, Il.10.394, Od.12.284, Hes.Th.481; θοὴν ἀλεγύνετε δαῖτα partake of a hasty meal, i.e. in haste, Od.8.38; later, of animals, Pi.P.4.17, E.Ba.977 (lyr.); also “μάχαι” Pi.P.8.26; “γλῶσσα” Id.N.7.72; “θοὰ βάξις” A.Ag.476 (lyr.); “θ. εἰρεσίας ζυγόν” S.Aj.249 (lyr.), cf. Orph.A.1037; “πτέρυξ” E.Ion123 (lyr.), cf. A.Pr.129 (lyr.); “σάκος” A.R.1.743; “ἀσπίδας . . θοὸν ἔχμα βολάων” Id.4.201; πνοαί, αὖραι, E. Andr.479 (lyr.), Tr.454 (troch.): used adverbially with Verbs of motion, ἐκπρολιποῦσα θοὸν δόμον quickly, in haste, Antim.71 (expld. by An.Ox. from τίθημι）“; θοὰν νύμφαν ἄγαγες” S.Tr.857 (lyr.). Adv. -ῶς quickly, in haste, Il.3.325, B.14.59, A.Pr.1060 (anap.), Pers.398, Hp.Mul.2.132; “θοώτερον” A.R.3.1406; soon, Od.15.216.
θοός (A), ή, όν, (θέω) poet. Adj.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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