The corpus record

χρησμολόγ-ος

chresmologos

uttering oracles

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Where it lives

Peace 1 · 1.26/10k
Birds 1 · 0.94/10k
Rhetoric 2 · 0.47/10k
Histories 3 · 0.16/10k
Hellenica 1 · 0.15/10k
History 2 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

χρησμολόγ-ος · chrēsmolog-os — LSJ

uttering oracles, soothsayer, diviner

uttering oracles, χ. ἀνήρ soothsayer, diviner, Hdt. 1.62, 8.96; of Musaeus, S. Fr. 1116.

II expounder of oracles, collector of oracles, oracle-monger

expounder of oracles, Hdt. 7.142, 143; and in 7.6, of Onomacritus, collector of oracles, oracle-monger, cf. Ar. Av. 960, Pax 1047, Th. 2.8, 21.

In the wild

χρησμολόγος · chrēsmologos Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 699)
χρησμολόγος · chrēsmologos Aristophanes, Peace (DIORISIS sentence 723)
χρησμολόγοι · chrēsmologoi Aristotle, Rhetoric 1
χρησμολόγοι · chrēsmologoi Aristotle, Rhetoric 3
χρησμολόγος · chrēsmologos Herodotus, Histories 1.62.4 (DIORISIS sentence 405)
χρησμολόγοι · chrēsmologoi Herodotus, Histories 7.142.3 (DIORISIS sentence 7867)

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Where it came from

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