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ὀττεύομαι , Att. for ὀσσεύομαι (which does not occur),
A.divine from an ominous voice or sound (ὄσσα）, ὀττευομένη δὲ κάθηται she sits looking for omens, of a lover, Ar.Lys.597; ταῖς τούτων κληδόσι by the cries of children, Plu.2.356e; “πρὸς [κόρακος] βοήν” Ael.NA1.48: generally, have forebodings of a thing, “τὸ μέλλον” Plb.27.16.5; “τι περὶ τῶν ὅλων” Id.1.11.15: c. (acc. et) inf., augur that . . , Porph.Antr.33, Luc. Lex.19.
II. regard as ominous, τὴν τύχην, τὸ ἔργον, D.H.9.23, 55: hence, deprecate as ill-omened, “πάντα τῦφον” Id.2.19.—The Act. ὀττεύουσιν prob. f.l. in Ael.NA3.9 (ὀπυίουσιν cj. Pierson Moer.p.279 P.): κλῃδονίζομαι was the equiv. Hellenic form, acc. to Moer. l. c.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (9):
    • Aristophanes, Lysistrata, 597
    • Polybius, Histories, 1.11.15
    • Polybius, Histories, 27.16.5
    • Lucian, Lexiphanes, 19
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 2.19
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 9.23
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 55
    • Aelian, De Natura Animalium, 1.48
    • Aelian, De Natura Animalium, 3.9
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