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μαντεῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μαντεῖος μαντεῖη μαντεῖον

Structure: μαντει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: poet. for mantiko/s

Sense

  1. oracular, prophetic

Examples

  • ἆρ’ οὐ φανερῶσ ἡμεῖσ ὑμῖν ἐσμὲν μαντεῖοσ Ἀπόλλων; (Aristophanes, Birds, Parabasis, parabasis11)
  • καίτοι καὶ τῶν θεῶν ἄλλοσ ἄλλην ἔχων δύναμιν, ὁ μὲν ἐνυάλιοσ, ὁ δὲ μαντεῖοσ, ὁ δὲ κερδῷοσ ἐπονομάζεται· (Plutarch, De tranquilitate animi, section 12 3:3)
  • καίτοι καὶ τῶν θεῶν ἄλλοσ ἄλλην ἔχων δύναμιν, ὁ μὲν ἐνυάλιοσ ὁ δὲ μαντεῖοσ ὁ δὲ κερδῷοσ; (Plutarch, De tranquilitate animi, section 12 12:1)

Synonyms

  1. oracular

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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