δῖος, δῖα, δῖον (δῖϝος, Διός): divine, an
epithet applied with great freedom and with consequent weakening of
force; only fem. as applied to gods, δῖα
θεα?,
Il. 10.290; δἶ
Ἀφροδι?τη, so δῖα θεα?ων,
also δῖα γυναικῶν, ‘divine of
women’; applied to Charybdis, Od.
12.104; to the swineherd Eumaeus
(‘noble’), Od.
16.56; to one of Hector's horses, Il. 8.185; also to inanimate things, the sea, earth, lands,
rivers.