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|lshtext=<b>prŏ-for</b>: fātus, 1 (<br /><b>I</b> inf. profarier, Prud. στεφ. 10, 939), v. dep. a., to [[say]] or [[speak]] [[out]], to [[say]], [[speak]] ([[mostly]] [[poet]]. and in [[post]]-Aug. [[prose]]).<br /><b>I</b> In gen.: veteres Casmenas cascam rem [[volo]] profari, [[tell]], [[relate]], Att. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 28 Müll.: [[quod]] jam et [[mehe]] Piget paternum [[nomen]], maternum [[pudet]] Profari, Pac. ap. Non. 424, 4 (Trag. Rel. v. 145 Rib.): [[pudor]] prohibebat plura profari, Hor. S. 1, 6, 57: tum [[breviter]] [[Dido]], [[vultum]] demissa, profatur, Verg. A. 1, 561: et sic accensa profatur, id. ib. 4, 364: quibus [[ille]] profatur: Forsitan, etc., Ov. M. 11, 289: vera profari, Petr. 121: sic [[ille]] [[profatus]], Luc. 9, 251: clamore magno, Sil. 11, 211.—<br /><b>II</b> In partic., to [[foretell]], [[predict]], [[prophesy]]: [[quando]] [[dies]] adveniet, quem profata [[Morta]] est, Liv. And. ap. Gell. 3, 16, 11 (acc. to Hom. Odyss. 2, 99): [[Pythia]] quae tripodi a Phoebi lauroque profatur, Lucr. 1, 739; 5, 112: Delio profante, Petr. 89; Dig. 21, 1, 1. —Hence, prŏfātum. i, n., a [[statement]], [[proposition]], [[axiom]] ([[post]]-[[class]].): ἀξιώματα, quae M. [[Varro]] [[alias]] profata, [[alias]] proloquia appellat, Gell. 16, 8, 2.