θαυμάσιος

θαυμάσι-ος [ᾰ], α, ον, [dialect] Ion. [pref] θωμ-, rarely ος, ον Luc.Im.19: (v. θαῦμα ):—

A wonderful, marvellous,

ὄσσα h.Merc.443

;

χάρις Hes.Th.584

(nisi neut. pl.); [

ὁδὸς] θωμασιωτέρη Hdt.2.21

; θωμάσια wonders, marvels, ib.35: [comp] 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.

3 disposed to wonder, in Adv.,

ὧν οὐ -ίως γ' ἔχουσι Hp.Morb.Sacr. 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.