θεσπέσιος

θεσπέσιος, α, ον, also ος, ον E.Andr.296 (lyr.), Luc.Sacr.13: (perh. for θες-σπέσιος, cf. θεός, ἔσπον):—prop. of the voice,

A divinely sounding, divinely sweet,

ἀοιδή Il.2.600

;

Σειρῆνες Od.12.158

;

ἔπεα Pi.I.4(3).39

;

ἀχέτας Ar.Av.1095

(lyr.).

2 divinely uttered or decreed, dat. sg. fem. θεσπεσίῃ as Adv., Il.2.367.

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.

c = θεῖος, βηλός Il.1.591;

ἄντρον Od.13.363

.

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

.

III Adv. -ίως, θ. ἐφόβηθεν they trembled unspeakably, Il.15.637: neut. θεσπέσιον as Adv.,

θ. ὑλᾶν Theoc.25.70

; also

ἀπόζει θ. ὡς ἡδύ Hdt.3.113

;

ὠδώδει θ. οἷον Plu.Alex.20

; θεσπεσίηθεν divinely,

ἀρηρότα Emp.96.4

. —Chiefly [dialect] Ep., once in Hdt., twice in Trag. (lyr.), once in Ar. (lyr.).