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μαντικός , ή, όν,
A.prophetic, oracular, “κλέος” A.Ag.1098; μ. μυχοί, θρόνοι, Id.Eu.180,616; “τέχνη” Id.Fr.350.6; μ. φῆμαι oracular sayings, S.OT723; τὸ μ. γένος, = μάντεις, Id.Ant.1055; “τὸ μ. σπέρμα” E.IA520; μ. ἐπίπνοια prophetic inspiration, Pl.Phdr.265b; λόγοι μ. ib.275b; “μ. ζῷα” Porph.Abst.2.48.
2. τέχνη μ. faculty of divination, prophecy, S.OT709, Arist.Pol.1274a28, etc.; more freq. ἡ μαντική alone, Hdt.2.49, 4.68; ἡ . . μ. ἡ τοῦ δαιμονίου, of Socrates, Pl.Ap.40a: in Poets without Art., A.Pr.484, S.OT311; also in Pl., “μαντικὴν Ἀπόλλων ἀνηῦρεν” Smp.197a; “μ. ἔνθεος” Phdr.244b, cf. Th.5.103.
II. of persons, like a prophet, oracular, “μ. γὰρ εἶ” Pl.Alc.1.115a, cf. Phd. 85b; Comp., Luc.Hes.7. Adv. -“κῶς” Ar.Pax1026, Pl.Smp.198a, etc.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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