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θηριῶδες (theriodes)

θηριῶδες is an Ancient Greek form of θηριώδης, meaning “full of wild beasts”. It is the vocative singular masculine adjective.

Found 50 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, The Trojan Women 671: καίτοι τὸ θηριῶδες ἄφθογγόν τʼ ἔφυ

Plato, Republic 9.571: … ἦν δʼ ἐγώ, ἐγειρομένας, ὅταν τὸ μὲν ἄλλο τῆς ψυχῆς εὕδῃ, ὅσον λογιστικὸν καὶ ἥμερον καὶ ἄρχον ἐκείνου, τὸ δὲ θηριῶδές τε καὶ ἄγριον, ἢ σίτων ἢ μέθης πλησθέν, σκιρτᾷ τε καὶ ἀπωσάμενον τὸν ὕπνον ζητῇ ἰέναι καὶ ἀποπιμπλάναι τὰ αὑτ …

All forms of θηριώδης (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.