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|lshtext=<b>vātes</b>: (vātis, Cic. Div. 2, 5, 12 Christ.), is (<br /><b>I</b> gen. plur. vatium, id. Leg. 2, 8, 20 al.), comm. perh. kindr. [[with]] Sanscr. vad, dicere, loqui; cf.: vas, vadis, and old Irish, fáith, a foreteller, [[seer]], [[soothsayer]], [[prophet]].<br /><b>I</b> Lit.: [[bonus]] [[vates]] poteras esse: nam quae sunt futura [[dicis]], Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 37: [[falsus]] [[utinam]] [[vates]] sim, Liv. 21, 10, 10; 4, 46, 5; 36, 15, 2; Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 58, 132 (Trag. v. 356 Vahl.); Lucr. 1, 102; Cic. Leg. 2, 8, 20; id. N. D. 1, 20, 55; Liv. 25, 1, 8; 39, 8, 3; 39, 16, 8; Sall. H. 1, 48, 3 Dietsch; Verg. G. 3, 491; 4, 387; 4, 392; id. A. 3, 246; 5, 524; Hor. S. 2, 5, 6 al. —Fem.: tuque, o sanctissima [[vates]], Praescia venturi, Verg. A. 6, 65: vatis sub tecta Sibyllae, id. ib. 6, 211; 3, 187; 6, 636; Sen. [[Troad]]. 37.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> A [[poet]]; a [[poetess]] (the oldest [[name]] for a [[poet]]; [[but]] it [[fell]] [[into]] [[contempt]], and [[was]] discarded for poëta, [[until]] restored to [[honor]] by Vergil; v. Munro ad Lucr. 1, 102; Müll. de re Metr. p. 65 sq.): versibu' quos [[olim]] Fauni vatesque canebant, Enn. ap. Cic. Brut. 19, 76 (Ann. v. 222 Vahl.); Verg. E. 7, 27; 9, 34; Hor. C. 1, 1, 35; 2, 20, 3; 4, 6, 44; 4, 9, 28; Tac. Or. 9; Quint. 10, 1, 48; 12, 10, 24; Plin. 14, 4, 6, § 56; cf. Varr. L. L. 7, § 36 Müll.—Fem.: sola tuum [[vates]] [[Lesbia]] vincit [[opus]], i.e. [[Sappho]], Ov. Tr. 3, 7, 20. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> An [[oracle]], i. e. a [[teacher]], [[master]], [[authority]] in [[any]] [[art]] or [[profession]] ([[post]]-Aug. and [[rare]]): Herophilus medicinae [[vates]] mirandā [[arte]], Plin. 11, 37, 88, § 219: Q. [[Scaevola]] legum clarissimus et certissimus [[vates]], Val. Max. 8, 12, 1.

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