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ἐγγαστρίμυθος

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Οὔτ' ἐν φθιμένοις οὔτ' ἐν ζωοῖσιν ἀριθμουμένη, χωρὶς δή τινα τῶνδ' ἔχουσα μοῖραν → Neither among the dead nor the living do I count myself, having a lot apart from these

Euripides, Suppliants, 968
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Transliteration A: engastrímythos Transliteration B: engastrimythos Transliteration C: eggastrimythos Beta Code: e)ggastri/muqos

English (LSJ)

ον,

   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.

German (Pape)

[Seite 700] ὁ, Bauchredner; aus dem Bauche wahrsagend; Luc. Lex. 20; LXX. auch ἡ.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

ἐγγαστρίμυθος: -ον, ὁ λαλῶν ἐκ τῆς γαστρός, τὸ πλεῖστον ἐπὶ γυναικῶν, αἵτινες διὰ τούτου τοῦ μέσου ἔδιδον χρησμούς, ἑπομένως = ἐγγαστρίμαντις, Ἱππ. 1156G, Φιλοχόρ. Ἀποσπ. 192, Ἑβδ.: πρβλ. Λουκ. Λεξιφ. 20, Πλούτ. 2. 414Ε: - ποιητ. ἐγγαστερίμυθος Χρησμ. Σιβυλλ. 3. 226.