A.“θαυμάσομαι” A.Pr.476, E.Alc.157, Pl.Prm.129c, Ep. “θαυμάσσομαι” Il.18.467; also “θαυμάσω” Hp.Nat.Puer. 29, Plu.2.823f, etc. (in X.Cyr.5.2.12 θαυμάζουσι is restored for -σουσι, θαυμάσετε is v.l. for -σαιτε, Id.HG5.1.14): aor. “ἐθαύμασα” A.Th.772 (lyr.), etc., Ep. “θαύμασα” h.Merc.414: pf. “τεθαύμακα” X.Mem.1.4.2, etc.:—Med., Gal.Med.Phil.2 (v.l.), Ael.VH12.30: aor. 1 ἐθαυμασάμην v.l. in Aesop.92; οὐκ ἂν θαυμας ώμεθα (leg. -σαίμεθα) Procl.in Prm.p.750S.; θαυμάσαιτο v.l. in J.BJ3.5.1:—Pass., fut. “-ασθήσομαι” Isoc.6.105, Th.2.41: aor. “ἐθαυμάσθην” Id.6.12: pf. “τεθαύμασμαι” Plb.4.82.1.
1. abs., wonder, marvel, Il.24.394, Pl.Hp.Ma.282e, etc.
2. c. acc., marvel at, Il.24.631, etc.; “πτόλεμόν τε μάχην τε” 13.11; “τύχη θαυμάσαι μὲν ἀξία” S.OT777, cf. OC1152, El.393:—Pass., ὡς τέρας θ. Hdt.4.28; μὴ παρὼν -άζεται I wonder why he is not present, S.OT 289.
b. honour, admire, worship, once in Hom. (but cf. θαυμαίνω）“, οὔτε τι θαυμάζειν . . οὔτ᾽ ἀγάασθαι” Od.16.203; freq. later, as Hdt.3.80, A.Th.772 (lyr.), S.Aj.1093, etc.; “θ. τύμβον πατρός” E.El.519; “μηδὲ τὸν πλοῦτον μηδὲ τὴν δόξαν τὴν τούτων θαυμάζετε, ἀλλ᾽ ὑμᾶς αὐτούς” D. 21.210; μηδὲν θ., Lat. nil admirari, Plu.2.44b; technically, of the attendance of small birds on the owl, Arist.HA609a15; θ. πρόσωπον to show respect to a person, i.e. comply with their request, LXX Ge. 19.21; θ. τινά τινος for a thing, Th.6.36; “θ. τινὰ ἐπὶ σοφίᾳ” Pl.Tht. 161c, X.Mem.1.4.2; “ἀπὸ τοῦ σώματος τὸν νεανίσκον” Plu.Rom.7:— Pass., to be admired, Hdt.7.204; “ὑπό τινος” Id.3.82; “ἔν τινι” Th.2.39; “τῶν προγεγενημένων μᾶλλον -θησόμεθα” Isoc.6.105; τοὺς ὁμοίως τεθαυμασμένους [ποιητάς] Phld.Po.5.31; “διά τι” Isoc.4.59: c. gen., “τῆς ῥώμης” Philostr.VA7.42; “χάρις δ᾽ ἀφ᾽ ἡμῶν ὀλομένων -άζεται” A. Th.703; τὰ εἰκότα θ. to receive proper marks of respect, Th.1.38; “θ. τινί” Id.7.63.
3. c. gen., wonder at, marvel at, τούτου (cj. for τοῦτο) Lys.7.23: c. part., “ὃ δ᾽ ἐθαύμασά σου λέγοντος” Pl.Prt.329c, cf. Cri.50c; “θ. τῶν προθέντων αὖθις λέγειν” Th.3.38; θ. τί τινος to wonder at a thing in a person, E.Hipp.1041; “ὃ θ. τοῦ ἑταίρου” Pl.Tht.161b, cf. R.376a: c. dupl. gen., “θ. τούτου τῆς διανοίας” Lys.3.44:—these phrases are used in Att. as a civil mode of expressing dissent.
4. rarely c. dat. rei, to wonder at, Th.4.85.
5. folld. by Preps., τὰ “-όμενα περί τινος” Pl.Ti.80c; “θ. περί τινος τί τῇ τέχνῃ συμβάλλεται” Sosip.1.37; “ἐπί σου θαυμάζω, πῶς δύνῃ . . ” Plb.23.5.12; “θαυμάσονται ἐπ᾽ αὐτῇ” LXXLe.26.32.
6. freq. folld. by an interrog. sentence, “θαυμάζομεν οἷον ἐτύχθη” Il.2.320; “θ. ὅστις ἔσται ὁ ἀντερῶν” Th.3.38; “θαυμάζοντες τί ἔσοιτο ἡ πολιτεία” X. HG2.3.17; “θ. ὡς οὔπω πάρεισιν” Th.1.90, cf. X.Cyr.1.4.20, etc.; θ. ὅτι I wonder at the fact that . . , Pl.R.489a; “πολλάκις τεθαύμακα ὅπως . . ” Com.Adesp.22.46D.; but more commonly, θ. εἰ . . I wonder if . . , as a more polite way of saying I wonder that . . , Hdt.1.155, S. OC1140, Pl.Phd.97a; “ἐὰν . . λέγω, μηδὲν θαυμάσῃς” Id.Smp.215a; “ὃ καὶ θαυμάζω, εἰ . . ” D.19.86; θαύμαζον ἀκούων, εἰ σὺ μὴ εἴης . . , Lat. mirum ni . . , Ar.Pax1292 (hex.).—This construction is freq. combined with one or other of the foregoing.
b. c. acc., “θαύμαζ᾽ Ἀχιλῆα, ὅσσος ἔην οἷός τε” Il.24.629; Τηλέμαχον θαύμαζον, ὃ θαρσαλέως ἀγόρευε they marvelled at Telemachus, that he spake so boldly, Od. 1.382; τὸ δὲ θαυμάζεσκον (Ion. impf.), “ὡς . . ” 19.229; “θ. σοῦ γλῶσσαν, ὡς θρασύστομος” A.Ag.1399, etc.: sts. without a connective, “ἀλλὰ τὸ θαυμάζω: ἴδον . . ” Od.4.655; “σοῦ . . θαυμάσας ἔχω τόδε: χρῆν γὰρ . . ” S. Ph.1362: sts. c. inf., “θαυμάζομεν Ἕκτορα δῖον, αἰχμητὴν ἔμεναι” Il.5.601.
c. c. gen., θ. τινός, ἥντινα γνώμην ἔχων κτλ. Antipho 1.5; “θ. τῶν . . ἐχόντων ὅπως οὐ λέγουσιν” Isoc.3.3; “θ. αὐτοῦ τί τολμήσει λέγειν” D.24.66; “θαυμάζω τινὸς ὅτι . . ” Isoc.4.1; θ. τῶν δυναστευόντων εἰ ἡγοῦνται I wonder at men in power supposing, ib.170; “ὑμῶν θ. εἰ μὴ βοηθήσετε” X.HG2.3.53; also “θ. αὐτοῦ . . τοῦτο, ὡς . . ” Pl.Phd.89a.
