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μαντ-εία , Ep. μαντ-είη , Ion. μαντ-ηΐη , ἡ, (μαντεύομαι)
A.prophetic power, power of divination, h. Merc.533, 547, etc.; “μαντείᾳ χρῆσθαι καθ᾽ ὕπνον” Pl.Ti. 71d; mode of divination, Hdt.2.57; “αἴνιγμα μαντείας ἔδει” S.OT394; “μαντείας δεῖται ὅ τι ποτὲ λέγεις” Pl.Smp.206b; ἔτι ταῦτα μαντείας προσδεῖται; Aeschin.1.76: pl., divinations, h.Merc.472, S.El.499 (lyr.), Hdt.2.83, etc.
2. conjecture, “ἡ περὶ τὸν θεὸν μ.” Arist.Cael.284b3; “μαντεία μᾶλλον ἢ κρίσει τἀληθὲς ἀναζητῶν” Luc.Herm.49.
II. oracle, prophecy, Pl.Ap.29a: pl., Tyrt.4.2, S.OT149, Lys.6.33; ὡς ἡ ἐμὴ μ. as I divine, Pl.Phlb.66b.
2. oracular, i.e. obscure, expression, Id.Cra.384a.
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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