A.“-ηθήσομαι” S.E.M.8.280: fut. Med.in pass.sense, ib.1.70, Ael.VH 7.10: (θεωρός):—to be a “θεωρός” 1 (q.v.), μαντεύεσθαι καὶ θ.Th.5.18; “ἐγὼ δὲ τεθεώρηκα πώποτ᾽ οὐδαμοῖ πλὴν ἐς Πάρον” Ar.V.1188; of the states which sent “θεωροί, οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι ἐθεώρουν ἐς τὰ Ἴσθμια” Th.8.10.
2. to be sent to consult an oracle, Pl.Ep.315b.
II. of spectators at games, “τὰ Ὀλύμπια” Hdt.1.59; “ἀγῶνα” Id.8.26, X.An.1.2.10; θ. τινά to see him act, Thphr.Char.11.3: abs., And.4.20, D.18.265; to go as a spectator, “ἐς τὰ Ἐφέσια” Th.3.104; “ἐς Ὀλυμπίαν” Luc.Tim.50; v. sub “ὀβολός” 1.
III. look at, behold, “γῆν πολλήν” Hdt.4.76; “τύχας τινός” A.Pr. 304; “τὰ περὶ τὸν πόλεμον” Pl.R.467c; inspect, review soldiers, X.An. 1.2.16, HG4.5.6: abs., gaze, gape, ἑστηκὼς θ. Thphr.Char.4.5: Astrol., = ἐπιθεωρέω 5, “τὴν σελήνην” Gal.19.542.
2. of the mind, contemplate, consider, αὐτῇ τῇ ψυχῇ αὐτὴν τὴν ψυχὴν θ. Pl.Grg.523e; “τὰ ὄντα ᾗ ὄντα” Arist.Metaph.1003b15, cf. D.1.12, Epicur.Nat.2.6, etc.: folld. by an interrog., “τοῦτο θ., εἰ τἀληθῆ λέγω” D.3.3; “θ. τινά, ὁποτέρου τοῦ βίου ἐστίν” Aeschin.3.168; “πόσας ἔχουσι διαφοράς” Arist.GA 761a11; “θ. τίνας λέγομεν τοὺς φρονίμους” Id.EN1140a24; θ. τι ἔκ τινος to judge of one thing by another, “τὴν ἔννοιαν ἐκ τῶν ἔργων” Is.1.13, cf. Aeschin.3.160; θ. τι πρός τι compare one thing with another, D.18.17; πρὸς τοὺς πρὸ ἐμαυτοῦ . . κρίνωμαι καὶ θεωρῶμαι; ib.315; “τοὺς πρέσβεις θ. πρὸς τὸν καιρὸν καθ᾽ ὃν ἐπρές βευον” Aeschin.2.80; θ. [τι τεκμηρίοις] D. 21.199.
b. observe, “θ. μᾶλλον τοὺς πέλας δυνάμεθα ἢ ἑαυτούς” Arist. EN1169b33, cf. Pol.1263b25,al.; “ταῦτα ἐμοῦ ἐθεωρήσατε, ὡς . . ποιουμένου” Lycurg.28:—Pass., “τεθεώρηται τοῦτο μάλιστα ἐπὶ τῶν περιστερῶν” Arist.HA562a23, cf. 540b19,al.; λόγῳ θεωρεῖσθαι, of objects not accessible to sense, Phld.D.3.10: abs., ὡς καὶ ἐπ᾽ ἄλλων θεωρεῖται ib.1.13.
d. abs., speculate, theorize, ἀκριβῶς, φορτικῶς, Arist.Pol.1280b28, Metaph. 1001b14; λογικῶς, φυσικῶς, Id.APo.88a19, Cael.304a25; “περί τινος” Id.Metaph.1004b1, 983a33 (Pass.); θ. ἔκ τινος to conclude by observation from . . , ib.1029a26; “διά τινος” Id.Mete.353b18:—Pass., ἡ παρὰ τοῖς Ἕλλησι τεθεωρημένη μάθησις Ael.Tact.Prooem. (θεωρήσασα is prob. corrupt for ἐωρ- in S.OC1084 (lyr.).)