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

  • ὅστισ καθ’ ὑπερβολὰν τοξεύσασ ἐκράτησε τοῦ πάντ’ εὐδαίμονοσ ὄλβου, ὦ Ζεῦ, κατὰ μὲν φθίσασ τὰν γαμψώνυχα παρθένον χρησμῳδόν, θανάτων δ’ ἐμᾷ χώρᾳ πύργοσ ἀνέστα· (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, choral, antistrophe 11)

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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