The corpus record

μαντ-εία

manteia · ἡ

prophetic power, power of divination

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Where it lives

De Divinatione per Somnum 1 · 8.34/10k
Oedipus Tyrannus 5 · 5.4/10k
Michaeas 1 · 4.39/10k
Epinomis 2 · 3.17/10k
Apology 2 · 2.29/10k
Helen 2 · 2.04/10k
Oedipus at Colonus 2 · 1.93/10k
Ezechiel 5 · 1.73/10k
Trojan Women 1 · 1.41/10k
Trachiniae 1 · 1.38/10k
Iphigenia in Tauris 1 · 1.21/10k
Symposium 2 · 1.15/10k

Densest 12 of 35 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

μαντ-εία · mant-eia — LSJ

prophetic power, power of divination, mode of divination, divinations

prophetic power, power of divination, h.Merc. 547, 547, etc.; μαντείᾳ χρῆσθαι καθʼ ὕπνον Pl. Ti. 71d; mode of divination, Hdt. 2.57; αἴνιγμα μαντείας ἔδει S. OT 394; 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

conjecture, ἡ περὶ τὸν θεὸν μ. Arist. Cael. 284b3; μαντεία μᾶλλον ἢ κρίσει τἀληθὲς ἀναζητῶν Luc. Herm. 49.

II oracle, prophecy, divine

oracle, prophecy, Pl. Ap. 29a: pl., Tyrt. 4.2, S. OT 149, Lys. 6.33; ὡς ἡ ἐμὴ μ. as I divine, Pl. Phlb. 66b.

2 oracular, obscure, expression

oracular, i.e. obscure, expression, Id. Cra. 384a.

In the wild

μαντείαν · manteian Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..fragments.6 (DIORISIS sentence 15)
μαντείας · manteias Aristotle, De Divinatione per Somnum (DIORISIS sentence 32)
μαντείαν · manteian Epictetus, Discourses 1.17 (DIORISIS sentence 882)
μαντείας · manteias Euripides, Helen (DIORISIS sentence 499)
μαντειῶν · manteiōn Euripides, Helen (DIORISIS sentence 502)
μαντεῖʼ · manteiʼ Euripides, Ion *(ermh=s.65 (DIORISIS sentence 23)

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Where it came from

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