ἐγγαστρίμυθος

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English (LSJ)

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   A ventriloquist, mostly of women who delivered oracles by this means: hence, = ἐγγαστρίμαντις, Hp.Epid.5.63, Philoch.192, LXX Le.19.31, Ph.1.654, Plu.2.414e, Luc.Lex.20; also, the familiar spirit of such a person, LXX 1 Ki.28.8.