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

  • προερῶ γὰρ καὶ προθεσπιῶ καὶ ἄνευ Κασταλίασ καὶ δάφνησ καὶ τρίποδοσ Δελφικοῦ, ὅτι ἂν γυμνὸσ τοῦ κρύουσ περινοστῇ τισ ὑόντοσ προσέτι ἢ χαλαζῶντοσ τοῦ θεοῦ, ἠπίαλοσ οὐ μικρὸσ ἐπιπεσεῖται τῷ τοιούτῳ, καὶ τὸ ἔτι γε τούτου μαντικώτερον, ὅτι καὶ θέρμη μετὰ ταῦτα, ὡσ τὸ εἰκόσ, ἐπιγενήσεται, καὶ ἄλλα πολλὰ τοιαῦτα, ὧν γελοῖον ἂν εἰή μεμνῆσθαι. (Lucian, 14:1)
  • εἴτε τι καὶ μαντικώτερον αὐτὸν πλησιάζοντοσ ἤδη τοῦ κακοῦ συνετάρασσε, μέλλοντα τῆσ ἡμέρασ ἐκείνησ ἐκ δυναστείασ τοσῆσδε ἀθρόωσ ἐκπεσεῖσθαι. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 2, chapter 10 7:7)

Synonyms

  1. of or for a soothsayer or his art

  2. like a prophet

Related

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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