μαντεύομαι

manteuomai

divine, prophesy

Appears 7 times across Aristotle's works.

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Nicomachean Ethics 2
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Book I 1
Chapter 5 1095b14–1096a10

1095b26
Book VI 1
Chapter 13 1144b1–1145a11

1144b24
Rhetoric 2
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Book I 1
Chapter 13 1373b1–1374b23

1373b7
Book III 1
Chapter 17 1417b21–1418b39

1418a25
De Anima 1
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Book I 1
Chapter 5 409a31–411b30

409b18
Generation of Animals 1
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Book IV 1
Chapter 1 763b20–766b26

765a27
History of Animals 1
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Book III 1
Chapter 20 521b4–522b5

522a18

Dictionary (LSJ)

μαντεύομαι, fut. -εύσομαι Od. 17.154, Pi. O. 6.38, A. Ag. 1367, Hdt. 1.46, etc.: aor. ἐμαντευσάμην Pl. Ap. 21a, Aeschin. 3.107; poet. μαντευσάμην Pi. O. 7.31: pf. μεμάντευμαι Id. P. 4.163:—Pass., v. infr. IV: (μάντις):—A. divine, prophesy, τί μοι θάνατον μαντεύεαι; Il. 19.420; τί νύ μοι μαντεύεαι αἰπὺν ὄλεθρον; 16.859; ἐτεὸν μ. 2.300: abs., οὐ γὰρ ἀπείρητος μαντεύομαι Od. 2.170, cf. 9.510, Il. 1.107; τινι to one, Od. 2.178, etc.: c. dat. modi, draw divinations from or by means of . . , ῥάβδοισι Hdt. 4.67: c. acc. cogn., μαντεῖα μ. A. Eu. 716 (s. v.l.). 2. generally, presage, forebode, surmise, of presentiment, opp. knowledge, Pl. Cra. 411b, R. 349a, al.; μαντευσόμεσθα τἀνδρὸς ὡς ὀλωλότος A. Ag.l.c.; ἔστι γὰρ ὃ μαντεύονταί τι πάντες φύσει κοινὸν δίκαιον Arist. Rh. 1373b7; μ. τὸ συμβησόμενον ἐκ τῶν εἰκότων Id. GA 765a27. 3. of animals, get scent of, κύων ἄρτον μ. Theoc. 21.45. II. consult an oracle, seek divinations, Pi. O. 7.31, Hdt. 1.46, 4.172, etc.; ἐν Δελφοῖσι Id. 6.76; ἐπὶ κασταλίᾳ Pi. P.l.c.; περί τινος Id. O. 6.38, Hdt. 8.36; ὑπέρ τινος E. Ion 431; ὁ γὰρ θεὸς μαντευομένῳ μοὔχρησεν ἐν Δελφοῖς ποτε Ar. V. 159, cf. Av. 593; ταῦτα καὶ μ. this is the question I ask the oracle, E. Ion 346; ἐτόλμησε τοῦτο μαντεύσασθαι Pl. Ap. 21a; μαντείαν μ. παρὰ τῷ θεῷ Aeschin.l.c. III. later, of the god, give an oracle, ταῦθʼ ὁρῶ τὸν Δία ὑμῖν μαντευόμενον D. 18.253, cf. Luc. Alex. 19, Sol. 9. IV. in later Greek, Act. μαντεύω, Plu. Alex. 75, Arr. Ind. 11.5, X.Eph. 5.4, Him. Or. 10.5, 14.34, 23.23: but aor. Pass., ἐμαντεύθη an oracle was given, Hdt. 5.114: pf. part., τὰ μεμαντευμένα the words of the oracles, ib.45; τὰ ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ μαντευσθέντα (sic) IG 42(1).122.81 (Epid., iv B.C.), cf. Hld. 7.1.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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