μάντις: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ὁ, gen. εως, Ion. ιος; voc. [[μάντῐ]]: pl., gen. [[μάντεων]] (written μαντειον <span class="title">IG</span>12.503); dat. <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> μάντεσι <span class="bibl">Thgn.545</span>: also fem., acc. sg. μάντιδα δάφνην <span class="title">App.Anth.</span>6.122; nom. pl. [[μάντιδες]] Suid.s.v. [[Σίβυλλα]]:— [[diviner]], [[seer]], [[prophet]], ἀλλ' ἄγε δή τινα μ. ἐρείομεν ἢ ἱερῆα ἢ καὶ ὀνειροπόλον <span class="bibl">Il.1.62</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Od.17.384</span>; <b class="b3">μάντι κακῶν</b> [[prophet]] of ill, <span class="bibl">Il.1.106</span>; with the Greek armies, <span class="bibl">Simon.94</span>, <span class="title">IG</span>12.929.129: distd. from [[χρησμολόγος]], <span class="bibl">Th.8.1</span>; μ. ἀνήρ <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">I.</span>6(5).51</span>; of Apollo, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ag.</span>1202</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ch.</span>559</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Eu.</span> 169</span> (lyr.); <b class="b3">ὁ μάντις μάντιν ἐκπράξας ἐμέ</b>, of Apollo and Cassandra, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ag.</span>1275</span>; of the Pythian priestess, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Eu.</span>29</span>; of Amphiaraus, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Th.</span> 382</span>, etc.: c. dat. pers., ὁ Θρῃξὶ μ. <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hec.</span>1267</span> (of Dionysus), cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Or.</span> 363</span>: c. acc. neut. Pron., μάντις… οὐ καλὸς τάδε <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Heracl.</span>65</span>: as fem., A.<span class="title">Ag.</span> l.c., <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">El.</span>472</span> (lyr.), <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Med.</span>239</span>; μ. κόρα <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">P.</span>11.33</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> metaph., [[presager]], [[foreboder]], μ. εἴμ' ἐσθλῶν ἀγώνων <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OC</span>1080</span> (lyr.), cf.<span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ant.</span>1160</span>, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Th.</span>402</span>; οὐδεὶς μ. τῶν μελλόντων <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Aj.</span>1419</span> (anap.); γνώμη δ' ἀρίστη μ. <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hel.</span>757</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> Adj., <b class="b3">τοῦδε μάντεως χοροῦ</b> of this [[prophetic]] band, dub. in <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Fr.</span>113</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> a kind of [[grasshopper]], the [[praying mantis]], [[Mantis religiosa]], <span class="bibl">Theoc.10.18</span>, Dsc.<span class="title">Eup.</span>1.149. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> <b class="b2">green garden-frog, Rana arborea</b>, so called as [[predicting]] the weather, Hsch. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">IV</span> a kind of [[cabbage]], Nic.<span class="title">Fr.</span>85.7. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">V</span> applied to comets, Herm. ap. Stob.1.21.9. (Deriv. from [[μαίνομαι]] by <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Ti.</span>72a</span>, <span class="bibl">72b</span>.)</span>