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θηρι^-ώδης , ες,
A.full of wild beasts, infested by them, of countries, “ἡ θ. Αιβύη” Hdt.4.181; “ὄρεα -έστατα” Id.1.110; ἐν τῇ θ. [χώρῃ] Id.4.174, cf. 2.32; -εστάτης ἐούσης τῆς θαλάσσης ταύτης full of ravenous fishes, Id.6.44.
II. of beasts, savage, Arist.PA663a13; “ἐπὶ τὸ -έστερον” Id.HA502b4; τὸ θ., of a colt, E.Tr.671.
2. of men and manners, brutal, “δίαιτα” Hp.VM3; [βίοτος] E.Supp.202, cf.SIG704E11 (Delph., ii B.C.); “ἡδονή” Pl.R.591c; “βρίμωσις” Phld.Ir.p.58W.; “κατάστασις” OGI424.3 (Palestine, i A.D.); “ὁ θ. ἐν τοῖς ἀνθρώποις σπάνιος” Arist.EN 1145a30; οἱ Αάκωνες . . θηριώδεις ἀπεργάζονται [τοὺς παῖδας] Id.Pol. 1338b12; “ἡ θ. ἕξις” Id.EN1145a24: Comp. “-έστερος, ἄνθρωπος” Plb.30.12.3; τὸ θ. brutality, Pl.Cra.394e, al. Adv. “-ωδῶς, διακεῖσθαι πρὸς ὰλλήλους” Isoc.11.25, cf. Plb.15.20.3.
3. ζῴδια θ.,= θηριόμορφα, Ptol.Tetr.200.
III. Medic., malignant, of ulcers, Phld.Ir.p.44W., Dsc.2.108, Plu.2.165e, Aret.SA2.8; also of intestinal worms, Hp. Epid.6.1.11, 6.2.11.
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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    • Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, 1145a.30
    • Euripides, Suppliants, 202
    • Euripides, Trojan Women, 671
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.110
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    • Hippocrates, De prisca medicina, 3
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