θείους (theious)

θείους is an Ancient Greek form of θεῖος, meaning “divine; (noun) uncle”. It is the accusative plural masculine noun or adjective.

It can also be a form of θεῖοσ, “(garbled form; cf. θεῖος, divine)”. It is the accusative plural masculine noun or adjective.

It can also be a form of θειόω, “fumigate with brimstone; fumigates his”. It is the 2nd person singular present active indicative.

Found 25 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.1.119: Θείους τʼ εἶναι· ἔχειν γὰρ ἐν ἑαυτοῖς οἱονεὶ θεόν. τὸν δʼ φαῦλον ἄθεον. διττὸν δὲ εἶναι τὸν ἄθεον, τόν τʼ ἐναντίως τ …

Plutarch, Quomodo adolescens poetas audire debeat 6·3: … ὀνόμασιν ἐξέφραζον, ὥσπερ ἡμεῖς καὶ πράγματα καὶ ἤθη καὶ νὴ Δία καὶ λόγους καὶ ἄνδρας εἰώθαμεν δαιμονίους καὶ θείους προσαγορεύειν.

Pausanias, Description of Greece 8.35.3: … ὁδὸς ἐπὶ μὲν τὸν Ἀλφειὸν στάδιοι τριάκοντά εἰσιν, ἀπὸ δὲ τοῦδε παρὰ ποταμὸν ὁδεύσας Θειοῦντα—κάτεισι δὲ καὶ ὁ Θειοῦς οὗτος ἐς τὸν Ἀλφειόν—, ἀπολιπὼν οὖν τὸν Θειοῦντα ἐν ἀριστερᾷ σταδίοις ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἀλφειοῦ τεσσαράκοντα ἥξεις μάλι …

All forms of θεῖος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.