Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /mantéβome/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /mantévome/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /mãdévome/

Verb

μᾰντεύομαι • ‎(manteúomai)

1. I divine, prophesy
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 716
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.67
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.107
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.300
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 16.859
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 19.420
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 2.170
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 9.510
2. I presage, forbode
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1367
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Generation of Animals 765a27
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 1373b7
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3. (of animals) I get scent of
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 21.45
4. I consult an oracle, I seek divinations
   • Aeshin., 3 107
   • 414 BCE, Aristophanes, The Birds 593
   • 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 159
   • 413 BCE, Euripides, Ion 346
   • 413 BCE, Euripides, Ion 431
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.46
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.172
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.76
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.36
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 6.38
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 7.31
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 4.163
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5. (of the god) I give an oracle
   • 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 253
   • 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Alexander the False Prophet 19
   • 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Soloecista 9
6. (later Greek, in active and passive) I give an oracle
   • 86 CE – 160 CE, Arrian, Ind. 11.5
   • 200 CE – 400 CE, Heliodorus of Emesa, Aethiopica 7.1
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.45
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.114
   • 300 CE – 400 CE, Himerius, Orations 10.5
   • 300 CE – 400 CE, Himerius, Orations 14.34
   • 300 CE – 400 CE, Himerius, Orations 23.23
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Alexander the Great 75
   • 100 CE – 200 CE, Xenophon of Ephesus, Ephesian Tale 5.4

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Synonyms

• θριάομαι ‎(thriáomai)

References

• μαντεύομαι in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μαντεύομαι in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• μαντεύομαι in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «μαντεύομαι» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• «μαντεύομαι» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• μαντεύομαι in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G3132”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979