θηρίον

qhrivon qhrivon,
qhrivou,
tov (diminutive of
qhvr; hence, a little beast, little animal; Plato, Theact., p. 171 e.; of bees, Theocritus, 19, 6; but in usage it had almost always the force of its primitive; the later diminutive is
qhridion (cf. Epictetus diss. 2, 9, 6)); (from Homer down); the Septuagint for hy:j' and hm;heB], an animal; a wild animal, wild beast, beast: properly, ; Rec.;; f; ; (); ; in and --, , under the figurative of a `beast' is depicted Antichrist, both his person and his kingdom and power (see
ajntivcristo"); metaphorically, a brutal, bestial man, savage, ferocious, (colloquial, `ugly dogs') (so in Aristophanes eqq. 273; Plutarch, 439; nub. 184; (cf. Schmidt, chapter 70, 2; apparently never with allusion to the stupidity of beasts); still other examples are given by Kypke, Observations, ii., p. 379;
qhriva
ajnqrwpomorfa, Ignatius Smyrn. 4, cf. ad Ephes. 7). (Synonym: see
zown.)*