prophet; spokesman/interpreter of a god; foreteller, soothsayer (L+S)
Latin word, found 45 times in the texts on Socratos.
Apuleius, Metamorphoses 2.28: Ergo igitur senex ille: Veritatis arbitrium in divinam providentiam reponamus. Zatchlas adest Aegyptius, propheta primarius, qui mecum iamdudum grandi praemio pepigit reducere paulisper ab inferis spiritum corpusque istud p …
Jerome, Epistolae 7.3: … lis conligatus dominicum de cvangelio expecto clamorem: Hieronyme, veni foras. Bonosus, inquam,—quia secundum prophetam omnis diaboli virtus in lumbo est—trans Euphraten tulit lumbare suum ibi illud in foramine petrae abscondens …
All forms of propheta