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vati

vati is a Latin form of vates, meaning “prophet, seer; poet, bard”. It is the dative singular masculine noun or dative singular feminine noun.

Found 47 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Vergil, Eclogues 7.28: cingite, ne vati noceat mala lingua futuro.

Propertius, Elegiae 4.6.10: pura nouum uati laurea mollit iter.

Phaedrus, Fabulae 4.25.33: Vati dedisse vitam mercedis loco.

All forms of vates (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.