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θέα_ , Ion. θέη , ἡ, (θεάομαι)
A.seeing, looking at, θέης ἄξιος, = ἀξιοθέητος, Hdt.1.25, cf. X.HG6.2.34; θέαν λαβεῖν to take or get a view, S. Ph.536, 656; ἐς θέαν [τινὸς] ἔρχεσθαι, ἐπὶ θέαν τἀνδρὸς ἐλθεῖν, to go to see, E.IA427, Pl.La.179e; “κατὰ θέαν ἀναβαίνειν τοῦ χωρίου” Th. 5.7, cf. 9, 6.31; ἠγριωμένος ἐπὶ τῇ θέᾳ τινός at the sight of . . , X. Cyr.1.4.24; “βαδίζειν ἐπὶ κωμῳδῶν θέαν” Id.Oec.3.7.
b. of the mind, contemplation, “ἡ τοῦ ὄντος θ.” Pl.R.582c, cf. Arist.Ph.209b20, etc.
2. aspect, “διαπρεπὴς τὴν θ.” E.IA1588; “αἰσχρὰν θ. παρέχειν” X.Eq.7.2; “ἀπὸ τῆς θ. εἰκάζειν” Luc.VH1.11; ὑποδῦσα θέαν ἀνθρώπου having assumed the appearance of a human being, Palaeph.48.
II. that which is seen, sight, “Ζηνὶ δυσκλεὴς θ.” A.Pr.243; “μάλ᾽ ἄζηλος θ.” S.El.1455; “ὡς ἴδω πικρὰν θ.” E.Hipp.809; ἀταρβὴς τῆς θ. without fear of the sight, S.Tr.23: pl., “θέαι ἀμήχανοι τὸ κάλλος” Pl.R.615a.
2. spectacle, performance, in a theatre or elsewhere, Thphr.Char.5.7, etc.; “ἐν ταῖς θ. καὶ ἐν ταῖς πομπαῖς” CIG3068 A 22 (Teos), cf. Plu.Caes. 55, Brut.21, Hdn.1.15.1(pl.); μεγάλαι θ.,= Ludi Magni, Plu.Cam. 5.
III. place for seeing from, seat in the theatre (cf. αἴγειρος）“, θέαν εἰς τὰ Διονύσια κατανεῖμαι τοῖς πρέσβεσι” Aeschin.2.55, cf. D.18.28; θέαν καταλαμβάνειν to occupy one, Id.21.178; “προκαταλαμβάνειν” Luc.Herm.39; “ἔχειν ἐν τῷ θεάτρῳ” Plu.Flam.19, etc.
2. auditorium, IG22.1176.
IV. αἴδεσσαί με θέας ὕπερ revere me by thy countenance, dub. in h.Cer.64 codd. (prob. θεὰν σύ περ).
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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