A.divinely sounding, divinely sweet, “ἀοιδή” Il.2.600; “Σειρῆνες” Od.12.158; “ἔπεα” Pi.I.4(3).39; “ἀχέτας” Ar.Av.1095 (lyr.).
b. oracular, “γένος” Pi.P.12.13 (of the Graiae); “δάφνα” E. l.c.; θ. ὁδός the way of divination, of Cassandra, A.Ag.1154 (lyr.); εὐχαῖς ὑπὸ θ. with prayers to the gods, Pi. I.6(5).44.
II. more than human: hence, awful, of natural phenomena, “θ. νέφος” Il. 15.669; “ἀχλύς” Od.7.42; “λαῖλαψ” 9.68; marvellous, “χάρις” 2.12; θ. ἄωτον, χαλκός, 9.434, Il.2.457; θ. ὀδμή a smell divinely sweet, Od.9.211; ὀσμὴ θ. Hermipp.82.9; of human affairs, θ. φύζα, φόβος, Il.9.2, 17.118; “πλοῦτος” 2.670; “ἠχή” 8.159; “βοή” Od.24.49; “θ. ὅμιλος” Theoc. 15.66: also in Prose, “τέχνη θ. τις καὶ ὑψηλή” Pl.Euthd.289e; “θ. βίος” Id.R.365b; θ. καὶ ἡδεῖα ἡ διαγωγή ib.558a; “σοφοὶ καὶ θ. ἄνδρες” Id.Tht.151b, cf. Philostr.Dial.1; “φύσεις” Id.VS2.9.2; “θ. τὴν γνώμην” Luc. Alex.4.