μάντις: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ὁ, gen. εως, Ion. ιος; voc. μάντῐ: pl., gen. μάντεων (written μαντειον IG12.503); dat.<br><span class="bld">A</span> μάντεσι Thgn.545: also fem., acc. sg. μάντιδα δάφνην App.Anth.6.122; nom. pl. [[μάντιδες]] Suid.s.v. [[Σίβυλλα]]:— [[diviner]], [[seer]], [[prophet]], ἀλλ' ἄγε δή τινα μ. ἐρείομεν ἢ ἱερῆα ἢ καὶ ὀνειροπόλον Il.1.62, cf. Od.17.384; μάντι κακῶν = [[prophet]] of [[ill]], Il.1.106; with the [[Greek]] armies, Simon.94, IG12.929.129: distinguished from [[χρησμολόγος]], Th.8.1; μ. ἀνήρ Pi.I.6(5).51; of [[Apollo]], A.Ag.1202, Ch.559, Eu. 169 (lyr.); ὁ μάντις μάντιν ἐκπράξας ἐμέ, of [[Apollo]] and [[Cassandra]], Id.Ag.1275; of the [[Pythian]] [[priestess]], Id.Eu.29; of [[Amphiaraus]], Id.Th. 382, etc.: c. dat. pers., ὁ Θρῃξὶ μ. E.Hec.1267 (of Dionysus), cf. Or. 363: c. acc. neut. Pron., μάντις… οὐ καλὸς τάδε Id.Heracl.65: as fem., A.Ag. l.c., S.El.472 (lyr.), E.Med.239; μ. κόρα Pi.P.11.33.<br><span class="bld">2</span> metaph., [[presager]], [[foreboder]], μ. εἴμ' ἐσθλῶν ἀγώνων S.OC1080 (lyr.), cf.Ant.1160, A.Th.402; οὐδεὶς μ. τῶν μελλόντων S.Aj.1419 (anap.); γνώμη δ' ἀρίστη μ. E.Hel.757.<br><span class="bld">3</span> Adj., τοῦδε μάντεως χοροῦ of this [[prophetic]] [[band]], dub. in S.Fr.113.<br><span class="bld">II</span> a kind of [[grasshopper]], the [[praying mantis]], [[Mantis religiosa]], Theoc.10.18, Dsc.Eup.1.149.<br><span class="bld">III</span> [[European tree frog]], [[green garden-frog]], [[Hyla arborea]], [[Rana arborea]], [[Rana hyla]], [[Hyla viridi]], so called as [[predict]]ing the [[weather]], Hsch.<br><span class="bld">IV</span> a kind of [[cabbage]], Nic.Fr.85.7.<br><span class="bld">V</span> applied to [[comet]]s, Herm. ap. Stob.1.21.9. (Deriv. from [[μαίνομαι]] by Pl.Ti.72a, 72b.)