θαυμάσιος

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; θαυμάσῑ 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.