The corpus record

καταμαντ-εύομαι

katamanteuomai

foretell against

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Where it lives

The Funeral Speech 51-61 1 · 3.98/10k
Rhetoric 1 · 0.23/10k

What it meant

καταμαντ-εύομαι · katamant-euomai — LSJ

foretell against, about

foretell against or about one, τι τῶν ἐχθρῶν J. BJ 4.4.6; <αὐτὸς> αὑτοῦ σιωπὴν κ. Ath. 15.686c; τοῦτο τῇ πόλει, c. fut. inf., App. Pun. 77.

2 divine, surmise

divine, surmise, ἐκ τῶν προγεγονότων τὰ μέλλοντα -μαντευόμενοι κρίνομεν Arist. Rh. 1368a31; κ. τὸ μέλλον Plb. 2. 22.7, etc.: c. gen., ἰητροῦ ἐστι -μαντεύσασθαι τῶν τοιούτων Hp. Art. 9; κ. τῆς τῶν ποιημάτων διανοίας Ath. 14.634d; τοῦ εἰκότως συμβαίνοντος Hierocl. in CA 10p.437M.; κ. περὶ τῶν γυναικῶν, ὁποῖαι . . Nicostr. ap. Stob. 4.22.102, cf. Gal. 15.907; ὑπέρ τινος Onos. 36.2.

In the wild

καταμαντευόμενοι · katamanteuomenoi Aristotle, Rhetoric 1
καταμαντευόμενοι · katamanteuomenoi Demosthenes, The Funeral Speech 51-61 34 (DIORISIS sentence 104)

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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