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θεῖος (A), α, ον: late Ep. θέειος Procl.H.2.16; θεήϊος Bion Fr.15.9; late Aeol. θήϊος Epigr.Gr.989.4 (Balbilla); Lacon. σεῖος (v. infr. 1.3): Comp. and Sup. θειότερος, -ότατος, freq. in Pl., Phdr.279a, Mx. 244d, al.: (θεός):
1. of or from the gods, divine, “γένος” Il.6.180; “ὀμφή” 2.41; Ὄνειρος ib.22; “ἐπιπνοίαις” A.Supp.577, cf. Pl.R.499c; “μάστιξ” A. Pr.682; “μανία” S.Aj.611 (lyr.); νόσος ib.185 (lyr.) (but θ. νόσος, of a dust-storm, Id.Ant.421); “κίνδυνοι” And.1.139; θ. τινὶ μοίρᾳ by divine intervention, X.HG7.5.10; “θ. τύχῃ γεγονώς” Hdt.1.126; “θ. τύχῃ χρεώμενος” Id.3.139; θ. κἀπόνῳ τύχῃ, of an easy death, S.OC1585; “ἐκ θ. τύχης” Id.Ph.1326; “ἔμαθε ὡς θ. εἴη τὸ πρῆγμα” Hdt.6.69; “ὁ θ. νόμος” Th.3.82; φύσις θ. SIG1125.8 (Eleusis), cf. 2 Ep.Pet.1.4; appointed of God, “βασιλῆες” Od.4.691; σκῆπτρον given by God, S.Ph.139 (lyr.); v. infr. 2.
2. belonging or sacred to a god, holy, ἀγών, χορός, Il.7.298, Od. 8.264; under divine protection, πύργος, δόμος, Il.21.526, Od.4.43; of heralds and bards, Il.4.192, Od.4.17, al.; so perh., of kings, ib. 691.
3. morethan human, of heroes, “Ὀδυσσεύς” Il.2.335, al., Cratin. 144.4 (lyr.); “θ. ἀνήρ” Pi.P.6.38, A.Ag.1548 (lyr.), Pl.R.331e, Men.99d (esp. at Sparta (Lacon. σεῖος), Arist.EN1145a29; ὦ θεῖε (in the mouth of a Spartan) Pl.Lg.626c); “μετὰ σοῦ τῆς θείας κεφαλῆς” Id.Phdr.234d, cf. Them.Or.9.128a, Lib.Or.19.66.
b. of things, excellent, “θεῖον ποτόν” Od.2.341, 9.205; “ἁλὸς θείοιο” Il.9.214; θ. πρήγματα marvellous things, Hdt.2.66; “ἐν τοῖσι θειότατον” Id.7.137.
4. = Lat. divinus (or sacer), Imperial, διατάξεις prob. in BGU473.5（200 A.D.), etc.; “θησαυροί” PLips.62ii14 (iv A.D.); θ. ὅρκος oath by the Emperor, POxy.83.6 (iv A.D.), etc.; θειότατος, of living Emperors, Inscr.Prien.105.22 (9 B.C.), etc.
b. = Lat.divus, of deified Emperors, θ. Σεβαστός Edict.Claud. ap.J.AJ19.5.3, cf.Inscr.Perg.283 (iii A.D.), Lyd.Mag.2.3.
II. as Subst., θεῖον, τό, the Divinity, Hdt.1.32,3.108, al., A.Ch.958 (lyr.); “τοῦ θ. χάριν” Th.5.70; ἡμαρτηκότα εἰς τὸ θ. Pl.Phdr.242c.
2. in an abstract sense, divinity, κεκοινώνηκε . . τοῦ θ. ib.246d; ἢ μόνον μετέχει τοῦ θ . . . , ἢ μάλιστα [ἄνθρωπος] Arist.PA656a8, etc.; κατὰ θεῖον or κατά τι θ., Aen.Gaz.Thphr.p.37 B., p.4 B.
3. θεῖα, τά, the acts of the gods, course of providence, S.Ph.452, etc.; “τὰ θ. θνητοὺς ὄντας εὐπετῶς φέρειν” S.Fr.585; “τὰ θ. μὴ φαύλως φέρειν” Ar.Av.961.
b. matters of religion, ἔρρει τὰ θ. religion is no more, S.OT910 (lyr.), cf. OC1537, X.Cyr.8.8.2, etc.
c. inquiries concerning the divine, Pl.Sph.232c; τὰ φανερὰ τῶν θείων, i.e. the heavenly bodies, Arist.Metaph.1026a18, cf. GA731b24, Ph.196a33 (Sup.), EN1141b1.
III. Adv. θείως by divine providence, “θ. πως” X.Cyr.4.2.1, etc.; θειοτέρως by special providence, Hdt.1.122; μᾶλλόν τι καὶ -ότερον ib.174.
2. divinely, excellently, εὖ γε καὶ θ. Pl.Tht.154d; “θείως εἰρῆσθαι” Arist.Metaph.1074b9.
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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