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χρησμολόγος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: χρησμολόγος χρησμολόγον

Structure: χρησμολογ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: le/gw

Sense

  1. uttering oracles, divining, a soothsayer, diviner
  2. an expounder of oracles, an oracle-monger

Examples

  • ταύτῃ Θεμιστοκλέοσ ἀποφαινομένου Ἀθηναῖοι ταῦτα σφίσι ἔγνωσαν αἱρετώτερα εἶναι μᾶλλον ἢ τὰ τῶν χρησμολόγων, οἳ οὐκ ἐών ναυμαχίην ἀρτέεσθαι, τὸ δὲ σύμπαν εἰπεῖν οὐδὲ χεῖρασ ἀνταείρεσθαι, ἀλλὰ ἐκλιπόντασ χώρην τὴν Ἀττικὴν ἄλλην τινὰ οἰκίζειν. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 7, chapter 143 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. uttering oracles

  2. an expounder of oracles

Related

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

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