Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

χρησμῳδός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: χρησμῳδός χρησμῳδόν

Structure: χρησμῳδ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: w)|dh/

Sense

  1. chanting oracles, delivering them in verse;, prophesying, prophetic
  2. a soothsayer, oracle-monger

Examples

  • τοῖσ χρησμῳδοῖσ καὶ τοῖσ μάντεσι τοῖσ θείοισ, ἵνα ἡμεῖσ οἱ ἀκούοντεσ εἰδῶμεν ὅτι οὐχ οὗτοί εἰσιν οἱ ταῦτα λέγοντεσ οὕτω πολλοῦ ἄξια, οἷσ νοῦσ μὴ πάρεστιν, ἀλλ’ ὁ θεὸσ αὐτόσ ἐστιν ὁ λέγων, διὰ τούτων δὲ φθέγγεται πρὸσ ἡμᾶσ. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 28:1)

Synonyms

  1. a soothsayer

Related

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

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