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μαντοσύνη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μαντοσύνη

Structure: μαντοσυν (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: ma/ntis

Sense

  1. the art of divination

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἀλλά μιν οὔτι μαντοσύναι ἐσάωσαν, ἐπεὶ χρεὼ ἦγε δαμῆναι· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 13:24)
  • ἄλλοι δ’ ἀστρολογίην ἀψευδέα μέν, ἀνωφελέα δὲ εἶναι λέγουσιν οὐ γὰρ ὑπὸ μαντοσύνῃ ἀλλάσσεσθαι ὁκόσα τῇσι μοίρῃσι δοκέοντα ἐπέρχεται. (Lucian, De astrologia, (no name) 28:1)
  • οὐδ’ ὀθνεῖοι ἀλαλκήσουσιν ἐόντεσ, εἰ δὴ ἐγὼν ὁ πρίν ποτ’ ἐπικλυτὸσ ἀνδράσι Φινεὺσ ὄλβῳ μαντοσύνῃ τε, πατὴρ δέ με γείνατ’ Ἀγήνωρ· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 4:16)
  • ἀλλὰ τίη με πάλιν χρειὼ ἀλιτέσθαι μαντοσύνῃ τὰ ἕκαστα διηνεκὲσ ἐξενέποντα; (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 6:37)
  • τοῖσ ὁ γέρων πάντεσσιν, ὅτισ καὶ ἀφαυρὸσ ἵκοιτο, ἔχραεν ἐνδυκέωσ, πολέων δ’ ἀπὸ πήματ’ ἔλυσεν μαντοσύνῃ· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 7:33)
  • ἕλισσε δὲ μάντιν ὀπωπήν, οἱᾶ́ τε μαντοσύνῃ μεροπήια πήματα λύων. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 2, chapter 1 53:3)

Synonyms

  1. the art of divination

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

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