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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

  • εἴσῃ γὰρ ὅσα ἐν τῷ ποιήματι τούτῳ μαντικῶσ ἅμα καὶ προφητικῶσ προτεθέσπισταί μοι τὰσ ἀποβάσεισ προδηλοῦντα τῶν τε ὀρθῶσ καὶ κατὰ καιρὸν πραττομένων καὶ τῶν παραλελειμμένων τὰσ ζημίασ. (Lucian, 10:2)
  • οὔκουν δοκῶ σοι μαντικῶσ τὸ φρύγανον τίθεσθαι; (Aristophanes, Peace, Lyric-Scene, antistrophe 15)
  • οὕτω μαντικῶσ ἅμα ἔχων ἔσπευδεν ἤδη πρὸσ τὸ τέλοσ τῆσ γραφῆσ. (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 31 1:1)
  • τὸν οὖν Σωκράτη εἰπεῖν βλέψαντα εἰσ τὸν Ἐρυξίμαχον, ἆρά σοι δοκῶ, φάναι, ὦ παῖ Ἀκουμενοῦ, ἀδεὲσ πάλαι δέοσ δεδιέναι, ἀλλ’ οὐ μαντικῶσ ἃ νυνδὴ ἔλεγον εἰπεῖν, ὅτι Ἀγάθων θαυμαστῶσ ἐροῖ, ἐγὼ δ’ ἀπορήσοιμι; (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 215:2)
  • τὸ μὲν ἕτερον, φάναι τὸν Ἐρυξίμαχον, μαντικῶσ μοι δοκεῖσ εἰρηκέναι, ὅτι Ἀγάθων εὖ ἐρεῖ· (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 216:1)

Synonyms

  1. of or for a soothsayer or his art

  2. like a prophet

Related

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

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