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θείῳ (theio)

θείῳ is an Ancient Greek form of τίθημι, meaning “to put, place, set; make”. It is the 1st person singular aorist active subjunctive.

It can also be a form of θεῖος, “divine; (noun) uncle”.

Found 146 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.77.3: … ίαν ἐπιπαρένησαν καὶ τῆς ἄλλης πόλεως ὅσον ἐδύναντο ἀπὸ τοῦ μετεώρου πλεῖστον ἐπισχεῖν, ἐμβαλόντες δὲ πῦρ ξὺν θείῳ καὶ πίσσῃ ἧψαν τὴν ὕλην.

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 10.41: θᾶσαι δὴ καὶ ταῦτα τὰ τῶ θείω Λιτυέρσα.

All forms of τίθημι (conjugation 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.