μάντις

A. μάντεσι Thgn. 545: also fem., acc. sg. μάντιδα δάφνην App.Anth. 6.122; nom. pl. μάντιδες Suid.s.v. Σίβυλλα:— diviner, seer, prophet, ἀλλ’ ἄγε δή τινα μ. ἐρείομεν ἢ ἱερῆα ἢ καὶ ὀνειροπόλον Il. 1.62, cf. Od. 17.384; μάντι κακῶν prophet of ill, Il. 1.106; with the Greek armies, Simon. 94, IG 12.929.129: distd. from χρησμολόγος, Th. 8.1; μ. ἀνήρ Pi. I. 6(5).51; of Apollo, A. Ag. 1202, Ch. 559, Eu. 169 (lyr.); ὁ μάντις μάντιν ἐκπράξας ἐμέ, of Apollo and Cassandra, Id. Ag. 1275; of the Pythian priestess, Id. Eu. 29; of Amphiaraus, Id. Th. 382, etc.: c. dat. pers., ὁ Θρῃξὶ μ. E. Hec. 1267 (of Dionysus), cf. Or. 363: c. acc. neut. Pron., μάντις . . οὐ καλὸς τάδε Id. Heracl. 65: as fem., A. Ag. l.c., S. El. 472 (lyr.), E. Med. 239; μ. κόρα Pi. P. 11.33.

2. metaph., presager, foreboder, μ. εἴμ’ ἐσθλῶν ἀγώνων S. OC 1080 (lyr.), cf.Ant. 1160, A. Th. 402; οὐδεὶς μ. τῶν μελλόντων S. Aj. 1419 (anap.); γνώμη δ’ ἀρίστη μ. E. Hel. 757.

3. Adj., τοῦδε μάντεως χοροῦ of this prophetic band, dub. in S. Fr. 113.

II. a kind of grasshopper, the praying mantis, Mantis religiosa, Theoc. 10.18, Dsc. Eup. 1.149.

III. green garden-frog, Rana arborea, so called as predicting the weather, Hsch.

IV. a kind of cabbage, Nic. Fr. 85.7.

V. applied to comets, Herm. ap. Stob. 1.21.9. (Deriv. from μαίνομαι by Pl. Ti. 72a, 72b.)