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θεήλ-α^τος , ον, (ἐλαύνω)
A.driven by a god, “θεηλάτου βοὸς δίκην” A.Ag.1297; “θ. δαίμονες” Plu.2.830f.
II. sent or caused by a god, of things evil in themselves or in their consequences, “φθορή” Hdt.7.18; ἔργον, πρᾶγμα, μάντευμα, S.Ant.278, OT255,992; “νόσους δ᾽ ἀνάγκη τὰς θ. φέρειν” Id.Fr.680; ἔκ τινος θεηλάτου from some destiny, E.Ion1392.
III. built for the gods, ἕδραι ib.1306.
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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