The corpus record — Latin

Gălĕōtae

Gălĕōtae · m

a sort of interpreters of prodigies in Sicily

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What it meant

Gălĕōtae — Lewis & Short

Gălĕōtae, ārum, m., = *galew=tai,

I a sort of interpreters of prodigies in Sicily: huic (Dionysio) interpretes portentorum, qui Galeotae tum in Sicilia nominabantur, responderunt, etc., Cic. Div. 1, 20, 39.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.