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πρόμαντις

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρόμαντις πρόμαντεως

Structure: προμαντι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a prophet or prophetess
  2. the Pythia or Delphic priestess, priestess
  3. prophetic, giving presage of the issue, prophetic, prophetic, foreboding of

Declension

Third 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

  • νῦν δ’ οὐδείσ ἐστιν ὅστισ οὐκ ἂν συμφήσαι τὸ μὴ οὐ τὰ μέγιστ’ ἀνθρώποισ καὶ κάλλιστ’ ἐκ θεῶν ἅμα τε ἔξω τέχνησ εἶναι καὶ τέχνησ κρείττω, καὶ τοῦθ’ οὕτω παρὰ πᾶσιν ἀνθρώποισ καὶ δεξιοῖσ καὶ πολλοῖσ κεκράτηκεν ὥσθ’ ὅσα μὲν τῶν ἑπτὰ σοφῶν κληθέντων οὕτωσ ἐν τοῖσ πᾶσιν ὄντων εὐαριθμήτων εἶπέ τισ ἢ συνεβούλευσεν, ἢ τῶν ἄλλων οὓσ ἐπὶ παιδείᾳ θαυμάζομεν ὡσ πρώτουσ, οὐδεὶσ προστίθησι θεῷ, ἀλλὰ τὸ τοῦ ἀνδρὸσ ὄνομα ἑκάστοισ ἐπιφημίζεται ἃ δ’ ἂν αἱ Πυθοῖ προμάντεισ φῶσιν, ἐπειδὰν ἐκστῶσιν ἑαυτῶν, ταῦθ’ ὡσ ὁ Πύθιοσ εἶπε καὶ Πλάτων καὶ ἅπαντεσ λέγουσι καίτοι τίνα ἐπίστανται δή που τέχνην τότε, αἵ γε οὐχ οἱαῖ́ τέ εἰσι φυλάττειν οὐδὲ μεμνῆσθαι; (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 9:5)
  • ἔθοσ δέ τι τῶν Κίμβρων διηγοῦνται τοιοῦτον, ὅτι ταῖσ γυναιξὶν αὐτῶν συστρατευούσαισ παρηκολούθουν προμάντεισ ἱέρειαι πολιότριχεσ, λευχείμονεσ, καρπασίνασ ἐφαπτίδασ ἐπιπεπορπημέναι, ζῶσμα χαλκοῦν ἔχουσαι, γυμνόποδεσ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 7, chapter 2 6:1)

Synonyms

  1. the Pythia or Delphic priestess

Related

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

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