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θαυμ-αστός , Ion. θωμ- , ή, όν,
A.wonderful, marvellous, first in neut. as Adv., “θαυμαστὸν γανόωντα” h.Cer.10; ἔργα μεγάλα καὶ θ. Hdt. 1 Prooem.; “θ. καρπός” Id.9.122; θ. λόχος γυναικῶν, of the Furies, A.Eu.46; “οὐδὲν τούτων θαυμαστὸν ἐμοί” S.Ph.191, etc.; “ὃ πάντων -ότατον” Pl.Smp.220a; θ. πλέγμα, Medic., the rete mirabile, Gal.5.196: c. acc., “θαυμαστὴ τὸ κάλλος” Pl.Phd.110c; “πᾶσαν ἀρετήν” Id.Lg.945e: c. gen., “τῆς εὐσταθείας” Plu.Publ.14; “τῆς ἐπιεικείας” Id.Per.39: c. dat., “πλήθει” Id.Caes.6; “πλέοσι ἐσόμεθα θωμαστότεροι” Hdt. 9.122; “πρός τι” Plu.2.980d: folld. by an interrog., εἰ, etc., θαυμαστὸν ὅσον . . , Lat. mirum quantum, Pl.Tht.150d, etc.; “θαυμαστὸν ἡλίκον” D.24.122; “θαυμαστά γ᾽, εἰ . . ” X.Smp.4.3; οὐδὲν θ., εἰ . . , Pl.Phdr.279a, R.390a; “οὐ δὴ θ., εἰ . . ” D.2.23. Adv. “-τῶς” Pl.Lg.633b; “θαυμαστῶς ὡς σφόδρα” Id.R.331a: neut. pl. as Adv., Id.Smp.192b; “θαυμαστὰ ὡς” S.Fr.960, E.IA943.
II. admirable, excellent, πατήρ, υἱός, ὄλβος, Pi.P.3.71,4.241, N.9.45; ἁνὴρ γὰρ οὐ στενακτὸς . . , ἀλλ᾽ εἴ τις βροτῶν θ. S.OC1665; iron., “πράξας μὲν εὖ θ. ἂν γένοιτ᾽ ἀνήρ” A.Pers.212; strange, absurd, “θ. καὶ γελοῖα” Pl.Tht.154b; θαυμαστὰ δρῶντες ib.151a; θαυμαστὰ ἐργάζεται behaves in an extraordinary way, Id.Smp.213d, cf. “θαυμάσιος” 111; “θαυμαστὸν ποιεῖς, ὅς . . ” X.Mem.2.7.13; “ὦ θαυμαστέ” Pl. Plt.265a; “ὦ θαυμαστότατοι” X.An.7.7.10.
III. to be worshipped, “οὐδείς μ᾽ ἀρέσκει νυκτὶ θαυμαστὸς θεῶν” E.Hipp.106.
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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