[Meaning] of a prophetic
demon.[1]
"He thought it right that the women who were frenzied by a
python's breath and exhibiting the appearance of pregnancy from intercourse with the the
demon foretell the future. And the men possessed by the demons were saying that victory would be with the Medes."[2]
*pu/qwnos: daimoni/ou mantikou=. ta/s te pneu/mati *pu/qwnos e)nqousiw/sas kai\ fantasi/an kuh/sews parexome/nas th=| tou= daimoni/ou perifora=| h)ci/ou to\ e)so/menon proagoreu=sai. oi( de\ tw=n daimo/nwn ka/toxoi e)/faskon th\n ni/khn *mh/dois pare/sesqai.
The headword and gloss are in the genitive singular. Latte in his edition of
Hesychius suggests, and Theodoridis agrees (for both, see next note), that the source is
Acts 16:16, where the headword appears in this case as a reference to a demonic prophetic spirit that possesses a woman.
[1] =
Synagoge pi787,
Lexica Segueriana 355.13,
Photius pi1522 Theodoridis;
Hesychius pi4315 has the same headword and gloss in the nominative case. For the lemma Adler compares
Lexicon Ambrosianum 1542. (The presence of the entry in the earlier lexica argues against the source of the gloss being commentary to the passage quoted from a CE7 author: see next note.)
[2] Theophylact Simocatta,
Histories 2.2.2-3.
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