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θαυμάσιος

θαυμάσιος, θαυμάσιος, wonderful, marvelous, admirable

θαυμάσι-ος [ᾰ], α, ον, Ion. θωμ-, rarely ος, ον Luc. Im. 19: (v. θαῦμα ):—
  • 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. Sollert. 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; θαυμάσιʼ 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 γʼ 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.

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