A.wonderful, marvellous, “ὄσσα” h.Merc.443; “χάρις” Hes.Th.584 (nisi neut. pl.); [“ὁδὸς] θωμασιωτέρη” Hdt.2.21; θωμάσια wonders, marvels, ib.35: Sup. “-ώτατα” Id.6.47; “θαυμάσια ἐργάζεσθαι” Pl.Smp.220a; ἧττον θαυμαστά, καίπερ ὄντα θαυμάσια less admired, though admirable, Plu.2.974d: c. inf., “τέρας θ. προσιδέσθαι” Pi.P.1.26; οὐ θ. [ἐστι] c. inf., Ar.Th.468; “ἔστιν δὲ . . τοῦτο . . θ., ὅπως . . ” Id.Pl.340; θ. τοῦ κάλλους marvellous for beauty, X.An.2.3.9; “πρὸς τὴν τόλμαν -ώτατε” Aeschin.3.152: with interrog., θαυμάσιον ὅσον exceedingly, Pl.Smp. 217a; “θαυμάσι᾽ ἡλίκα” D.19.24; τὸ -ώτατον what is most wonderful, D.S.1.63.
2. Adv. -ίως wonderfully, i.e. exceedingly, Ar.Nu. 1240: freq. with ὡς, θ. ὡς ἄθλιος marvellously wretched, Pl.Grg.471a; θ. ἂν ὡς ηὐλαβούμην I should be wonderfully cautious, D.29.1.
II. admirable, excellent, with slight irony, Pl.Phdr.242a, D. 19.113: freq. “ὦ θαυμάσιε” Pl.R.435c, al.; ὦ -ώτατε ἄνθρωπε, in scorn, X.An.3.1.27.
III. θ. καὶ ἄλογον strange and absurd, Pl.Grg. 496a; θαυμάσια . . ἐργαζομένους behaving in an extraordinary manner, Id.Ap.35a.
