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θεατάς (theatas)

θεατάς is an Ancient Greek form of θεατός, meaning “to be seen”. It is the accusative plural feminine adjective.

Found 43 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Caius Marcius Coriolanus 27.4: … ν ἀδίκως ἐκβαλοῦσιν, ὁ δὲ δῆμος ἐκείνους ᾐτιᾶτο διὰ μνησικακίαν ἐπάγειν τὸν Μάρκιον, εἶτα πολεμουμένων ἑτέρων θεατὰς καθῆσθαι, φύλακα τοῦ πλούτου καὶ τῶν χρημάτων ἔξω τὸν πόλεμον αὐτὸν ἔχοντας, ταῦτα διαπραξάμενος ὁ Μάρκιος, κ …

Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus 33.6: εἶτα μικροῦ διαλείμματος ὄντος ἤδη τὰ τέκνα τοῦ βασιλέως ἤγετο δοῦλα, καὶ σὺν αὐτοῖς τροφέων καὶ διδασκάλων καὶ παιδαγωγῶν δεδακρυμένων ὄχλος, αὐτῶν τε τὰς χεῖρας ὀρεγόντων εἰς τοὺς θεατάς καὶ τὰ παιδία δεῖσθαι καὶ λιτανεύειν διδασκόντων.

All forms of θεατός (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.