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Headword:
*)/otta
Adler number: omicron,726
Translated headword: prediction, rumor, voice
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning an] utterance, prophecy, divine voice.[1] Also [sc. attested is the related verb]
o)tteu/esqai ["to divine from an ominous sound"], [meaning] to prophesy.[2]
"But having made an intelligent prediction of the future, he got the idea of removing the guard from
Ptolemy."[3]
*)/otta: fh/mh, mantei/a, qei/a klh|dw/n. kai\ o)tteu/esqai, to\ manteu/esqai. o( de\ to\ me/llon e)mfro/nws o)tteusa/menos ei)s e)/nnoian h)=lqe th\n froura\n a)potri/yasqai th\n para\ *ptolemai/ou.
Notes:
[1] Attic for
o)/ssa (
omicron 676).
[2] (Attic for
o)sseu/esqai.) The entry so far =
Photius,
Lexicon omicron598 Theodoridis, and the first part is also in
Timaeus'
Platonic Lexicon; see also a scholion on
Plato,
Laws 7.800C (where the accusative of the headword occurs). See also
omicron 730,
omicron 731.
[3]
Polybius fr. 187 Büttner-Wobst. Büttner-Wobst notes (539) that Valesius (Henri de Valois 1603-1676) attributed this fragment to
Polybius. Without further context, both the identity of the subject and of the particular
Ptolemy that inspired him are uncertain.
T. Büttner-Wobst, ed., Polybii Historiae, vol. IV, (Leipzig 1904)
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; military affairs; philosophy; religion
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 22 May 2010@01:38:43.
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