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The corpus record

μαντικός

mantikos

prophetic, oracular

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Where it lives

  • De Divinatione per Somnum 2 · 16.68/10k
  • Ion 3 · 7.48/10k
  • Oedipus Tyrannus 4 · 4.32/10k
  • De Memoria et Reminiscentia 1 · 4.16/10k
  • Symposium 7 · 4.01/10k
  • Eumenides 2 · 3.82/10k
  • Phaedrus 6 · 3.61/10k
  • Minos 1 · 3.51/10k
  • Antigone 2 · 2.73/10k
  • Bacchae 2 · 2.66/10k
  • Cratylus 4 · 2.24/10k
  • Memorabilia 8 · 2.24/10k

Densest 12 of 38 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

μαντικός · mantikos — LSJ

prophetic, oracular, oracular, prophetic

prophetic, oracular, κλέος A. Ag. 1098; μ. μυχοί, θρόνοι, Id. Eu. 180, 616; τέχνη Id. Fr. 350.6; μ. φῆμαι oracular sayings, S. OT 723; τὸ μ. γένος, = μάντεις, Id. Ant. 1055; τὸ μ. σπέρμα E. IA 520; μ. ἐπίπνοια prophetic inspiration, Pl. Phdr. 265b; λόγοι μ. ib. 275b; μ. ζῷα Porph. Abst. 2.48.

2 of divination, prophecy

τέχνη μ. faculty of divination, prophecy, S. OT 709, Arist. Pol. 1274a28, etc.; more freq. ἡ μαντική alone, Hdt. 2.49, 4.68; ἡ . . μ. ἡ τοῦ δαιμονίου, of Socrates, Pl. Ap. 40a: in Poets without Art., A. Pr. 484, S. OT 311; also in Pl., μαντικὴν Ἀπόλλων ἀνηῦρεν Smp. 197a; μ. ἔνθεος Phdr. 244b, cf. Th. 5.103.

II like a prophet, oracular

of persons, like a prophet, oracular, μ. γὰρ εἶ Pl. Alc. 1.115a, cf. Phd. 85b; Comp., Luc. Hes. 7. Adv. -κῶς Ar. Pax 1026, Pl. Smp. 198a, etc.

In the wild

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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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