Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

μαντικός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μαντικός μαντική μαντικόν

Structure: μαντικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of or for a soothsayer or his art, prophetic, oracular
  2. the faculty of divination, prophecy
  3. like a prophet, oracular

Examples

  • πρῶτον μὲν γὰρ ἡ κάθαρσισ καὶ οἱ καθαρμοὶ καὶ κατὰ τὴν ἰατρικὴν καὶ κατὰ τὴν μαντικὴν καὶ αἱ τοῖσ ἰατρικοῖσ φαρμάκοισ καὶ αἱ τοῖσ μαντικοῖσ περιθειώσεισ τε καὶ τὰ λουτρὰ τὰ ἐν τοῖσ τοιούτοισ καὶ αἱ περιρράνσεισ, πάντα ἕν τι ταῦτα δύναιτ’ ἄν, καθαρὸν παρέχειν τὸν ἄνθρωπον καὶ κατὰ τὸ σῶμα καὶ κατὰ τὴν ψυχήν· (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 131:3)

Synonyms

  1. of or for a soothsayer or his art

  2. like a prophet

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Similar forms

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

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