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ψευδόμαντις

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ψευδόμαντις ψευδόμαντεως

Structure: ψευδομαντι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a false prophet

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

  • ἐν δὲ τῇ πέμπτῃ, τῶν ἀρίστων Ἀθήνησι καὶ πρώτων ἀνδρῶν Κλεισθένη μὲν ἀναπεῖσαί φησι τὴν Πυθίαν ψευδόμαντιν γενέσθαι, προφέρουσαν ἀεὶ Λακεδαιμονίοισ ἐλευθεροῦν ἀπὸ τῶν τυράννων τὰσ Ἀθήνασ · (Plutarch, De Herodoti malignitate, section 23 1:1)
  • προδιαλεχθεὶσ δὲ τοῖσ περὶ αὐτὸν δι’ οὗ τρόπου ψευδόμαντιν ἀποδείξειν τὸν οἰωνοσκόπον ὑπελάμβανεν, ἐπειδὴ παρεγένετο φιλανθρώποισ αὐτὸν ἀσπασμοῖσ ἀναλαβών, Νῦν, ἔφη, καιρὸσ ἐπιδείξασθαί σε τὴν ἀκρίβειαν τῆσ μαντικῆσ ἐπιστήμησ, ὦ Νέβιε. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 3, chapter 71 3:3)

Synonyms

  1. a false prophet

Related

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

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