The corpus record

μαντ-εῖον

manteion · τό

oracle, oracular response, seat of an oracle

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Where it lives

Ion 5 · 5.47/10k
Iphigenia in Tauris 3 · 3.62/10k
Trachiniae 2 · 2.75/10k
Histories 45 · 2.45/10k
Apology 2 · 2.29/10k
Oedipus Tyrannus 2 · 2.16/10k
Eumenides 1 · 1.91/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k
Electra 1 · 1.15/10k
Phoenissae 1 · 1.04/10k
Proverbia 1 · 0.9/10k
Timaeus 2 · 0.85/10k

Densest 12 of 18 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

μαντ-εῖον · mant-eion — LSJ

oracle

oracle, i.e.,

I oracular response

oracular response, mostly in pl., μαντήϊα Τειρεσίαο Od. 12.272, cf. Hes. Fr. 134.9, Hdt. 2.174, Pl. Ap. 33c: sg., Hdt. 2.111, 9.33, Phld. Mus. p.87 K.

II seat of an oracle

seat of an oracle, Heraclit. 93, A. Eu. 4, Hdt. 1.46, Th. 2.17, Isoc. 6.17; τὸ Πυθικὸν μ. S. El. 33: in pl. of a single shrine, A. Pr. 831, E. Ion 66.

III method, process of divination

method, process of divination, PMag.Lond. 46.1.

IV rewards of divination

in pl., rewards of divination, LXX Nu. 22.7.

In the wild

μαντεῖα · manteia Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1264–1265
μαντεῖον · manteion Aeschylus, Eumenides 2–3
μαντεῖον · manteion Aristotle, Politics 1331a (DIORISIS sentence 2756)
μαντεῖον · manteion Euripides, Ion 1 (DIORISIS sentence 42)
μαντεῖον · manteion Euripides, Ion *(ermh=s (DIORISIS sentence 25)
μαντεῖον · manteion Euripides, Ion *(ermh=s (DIORISIS sentence 13)

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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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