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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

  • καὶ ὅλωσ ἔνθα ἂν ἡ πρόμαντισ πιοῦσα τοῦ ἱεροῦ νάματοσ καὶ μασησαμένη τῆσ δάφνησ καὶ τὸν τρίποδα διασείσασα κελεύῃ παρεῖναι, ἀόκνον ’χρὴ αὐτίκα . (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 1:6)
  • μὴ πρόμαντισ ἀλγέων προλάμβαν’, ὦ φίλα, γόουσ. (Euripides, Helen, episode, lyric6)
  • ἃ δ’ ἐφείπετ’, οὐ πρόμαντισ ὧν ἔμελλεν· (Euripides, episode, lyric 2:7)
  • εἰ μὴ ’γὼ παράφρων μάντισ ἔφυν καὶ γνώμασ λειπομένα σοφᾶσ, εἶσιν ἁ πρόμαντισ Δίκα δίκαια φερομένα χεροῖν κράτη· (Sophocles, choral, strophe 11)
  • τούτων πρόμαντισ οὖσα, πολλὰ δ’, οἰόμαι, ψευσθεῖσα παιδὸσ σπαργάνων φαιδρύντρια, γναφεὺσ τροφεύσ τε ταὐτὸν εἰχέτην τέλοσ. (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, episode, anapests 1:16)

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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