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θηρός (theros)

θηρός is an Ancient Greek form of θήρ, meaning “wild beast”. It is the genitive singular masculine noun.

Found 52 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.45: καὶ μένος ἠύτε θηρὸς ἀέξετο· πῆλε δὲ χεῖρας

Euripides, Heracles 1.363: δεινῷ χάσματι θηρός·

Apollodorus, Library 3.4.4: … , ὃ καὶ τὴν λύπην αὐτῶν ἔπαυσε. τὰ ὀνόματα τῶν Ἀκταίωνος κυνῶν ἐκ τῶν οὕτω δὴ νῦν καλὸν σῶμα περισταδόν, ἠύτε θῆρος, τοῦδε δάσαντο κύνες κρατεροί. πέλας † Ἄρκενα πρώτη. μετὰ ταύτην ἄλκιμα τέκνα, Λυγκεὺς καὶ Βαλίος πόδας αἰνετ …

All forms of θήρ (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.