2. = προφήτης, the representative of the god and the organ of his prophecies, ἡ π . title of the Pythia, Hdt.6.66, 7.111, 141; “τ ὴν π . τ ὴν π . τ ὴν ἐν Δελφοῖς” Th.5.16; “Φοίβου π .” Neophr.1.3; also ἡ π . of Apollo at Patara, Hdt.1.182; ὁ π . of Ptoän Apollo, Id.8.135; π . δ ὲ ὁ ἱερεύς ἐσ τ ι (sc. Διονύσου) Paus. 10.33.11; “Δωδωναίων α ἱ π .” Hdt.2.55, cf. Euph.48; ο ἱ π . of Apollo at Argos, SIG735.7 (i B.C.).
πρόμαντ-ις , εως, Ion. ιος, ὁ, ἡ,
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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