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θεάομαι , Ep. and Ion. θηέομαι (v. infr.), Dor. θα_έομαι , Θάομαι (qq. v.), imper.
A.“θεῶ” Ar.Ach.262; opt. θηοῖο (for Att. θεῷο) Il.24.418; part. “θηεύμενος” Hdt.7.146: Ion. impf. ἐθηεῖτο, ἐθηεῦντο, Id.1.10, 3.136; Ep. “θηεῖτο” Od.5.75, etc., “θηεῦντο” Il.7.444, al., “ἐθηεύμεσθα” Od.9.218, “ἐθεῆτο” Hp.Nat.Puer.13, θηέσκετο Poet. ap. Parth.21.2: fut. θεάσομαι [α_], Ion. -ήσομαι: aor. ἐθεα_σάμην, Ep. opt. θηήσαιο, θηήσαιτο, Od.17.315, 5.74; 3pl. “ἐθηήσαντο” Euph.51.15; Ion. inf. θεήσασθαι (v.l. θεάσ-) Hdt.1.8: Att. pf. “τεθέαμαι” X.Cyr.7.5.7: codd. of Hdt. vary betw. θεη- and θηη-: a rare Ion. contr. of θηη- to θη- is found in “θησαίατ᾽” Od.18.191, “θησάμενος” IG12.826:—gaze at, behold, mostly with a sense of wonder, “θηεῦντο μέγα ἔργον” Il.7.444, cf. Od.2.13; “λαοὶ δ᾽ αὖ θηεῦντό τε θάμβησάν τε” Il.23.728, cf. Hdt.1.8,11, etc.; “θ. τὰ καλά” Democr.194; “πάντες ὥσπερ ἄγαλμα ἐθεῶντο αὐτόν” Pl.Chrm. 154c; “θ. ὄμμασι” E.Ion232 (lyr.); “ζητεῖ τὸ κακὸν τεθεᾶσθαι” Ar.Th.797 codd.; ἐθεᾶτο . . τὴν θέσιν τῆς πόλεως . . , ὡς ἔχοι reconnoitred it, Th.5.7; “θ. κύκλῳ τὴν πόλιν” X.Cyr.4.5.7: abs., θεᾷ; do you see? Men.Epit. 564.
2. of the mind, contemplate, “τὸ ἀληθές” Pl.Phd.84b, al.
b. see clearly, “ἵν᾽ ἴδητε καὶ θεάσησθε ὅτι . . ” D.4.3, cf. Pl.Prt.352a; with relat. clause, “ὅση δεινότης ἦν ἐν τῷ Φιλίππῳ θεάσεσθε” D.18.144.
3. view as spectators, esp. in the theatre, Isoc.4.44; οἱ θεώμενοι the spectators, Ar.Ra.2, cf.Nu.518, al. (but also, onlookers, bystanders, Antipho 3.3.7): metaph., θ. τὸν πόλεμον to be spectators of the war, Hdt. 8.116.
4. θ. τὸ στράτευμα to review it, X.Cyr.5.5.1.
II. Act. θεάω , late, Baillet Tombeaux des rois à Thèbes 1080: elsewh. in imper. “θέα” Them.Or.3.44b, Jul.Ep.89b, Hsch.: aor. ἐθεάθην in pass. sense, Ps. -Callisth.2.42, Ev.Marc.16.11, Ap.Ty.Ep.49, Just.Nov.133.3.1: pres. “θεῶνται” Philostr.Her.2.9. (Orig. prob. θα_ϝ έομαι and θα_ϝάομαι, cf. θαῦ-μα.)
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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