- θέατρον
- θέατρον, ου, τό (s. prec. two entries; Thu. et al.; ins, pap, Philo, Joseph.; Just., D. 122, 4; Tat. 8, 1; loanw. in rabb.) ‘a place for seeing’, esp. dramatic productions (Hdt. 6, 67, 3); then① a place for public assemblies, theater (Diod S 16, 84, 3 δῆμος ἅπας συνέδραμεν εἰς τὸ θέατρον; Chariton 8, 7, 1; Polyaenus 8, 21; IBM III, 481, 395 φερέτωσαν κατὰ πᾶσαν ἐκκλησίαν εἰς τὸ θέατρον [Ephesus]. Ins fr. the theater at Ephesus [103/4 A.D.] in Dssm., LO 90f [LAE 114]=OGI 480, 9. S. also SIG index; Jos., Bell. 7, 47; 107, Ant. 17, 161) Ac 19:29, 31; AcPl Ha 1, 24.② what one sees at a theater, a play, spectacle (Ps.-Pla., Axioch. 371c; Achilles Tat. 1, 16, 3) fig. θ. ἐγενήθημεν τῷ κόσμῳ we have become a spectacle for the world 1 Cor 4:9 (Synes., Prov. 1, 10 p. 100c θεαταὶ δὲ ἄνωθεν οἱ θεοὶ τῶν καλῶν τούτων ἀγώνων; Sallust, Jugurtha 14, 23; Pliny the Younger, Panegyricus 33, 3; s. HConzelmann, 1 Cor [Hermeneia] ad loc.).—DELG s.v. θέα. M-M. TW.
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