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πρόμαντ-ις , εως, Ion. ιος, ὁ, ἡ,
A.prophet or prophetess, “ὦ παῖ πρόμαντι Αατοῦς” E.Ion 681 (lyr.).
2. = προφήτης, the representative of the god and the organ of his prophecies, ἡ π. title of the Pythia, Hdt.6.66, 7.111, 141; “τὴν π. τὴν π. τὴν ἐν Δελφοῖς” Th.5.16; “Φοίβου π.” Neophr.1.3; also ἡ π. of Apollo at Patara, Hdt.1.182; ὁ π. of Ptoän Apollo, Id.8.135; π. δὲ ὁ ἱερεύς ἐστι (sc. Διονύσου) Paus. 10.33.11; “Δωδωναίων αἱ π.” Hdt.2.55, cf. Euph.48; οἱ π. of Apollo at Argos, SIG735.7 (i B.C.).
II. Adj., prophetic, ἁ π. δίκα justice giving presage of the issue, S.El.475 (lyr.); θυμὸς π. 'my prophetic soul', E.Andr.1072: c. gen., τούτων π. οὖσα prophetic, foreboding of a thing, A.Ch.758, cf. E.Hel.338 (lyr.), Or.1445 (lyr.).
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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