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                    "description": "vātes | vātis (noun Comm) : (, Cic. Div. 2, 5, 12 Christ.), is (\n* Gen. plur. vatium, id. Leg. 2, 8, 20 al.), comm. perh. kindr. with Sanscr. vad, dicere, loqui; cf.: vas, vadis, and old Irish, fáith, a foreteller, seer, soothsayer, prophet.\n* Lit.: bonus vates poteras esse: nam quae sunt futura dicis,Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 37: falsus utinam vates sim,Liv. 21, 10, 10; 4, 46, 5; 36, 15, 2; Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 58, 132 (Trag. v. 356 Vahl.); Lucr. 1, 102; Cic. Leg. 2, 8, 20; id. N. D. 1, 20, 55; Liv. 25, 1, 8; 39, 8, 3; 39, 16, 8; Sall. H. 1, 48, 3 Dietsch; Verg. G. 3, 491; 4, 387; 4, 392; id. A. 3, 246; 5, 524; Hor. S. 2, 5, 6 al. —Fem.: tuque, o sanctissima vates, Praescia venturi,Verg. A. 6, 65: vatis sub tecta Sibyllae,id. ib. 6, 211; 3, 187; 6, 636; Sen. Troad. 37.\n* Transf.\n* A poet; a poetess (the oldest name for a poet; but it fell into contempt, and was discarded for poëta, until restored to honor by Vergil; v. Munro ad Lucr. 1, 102; Müll. de re Metr. p. 65 sq.): versibu' quos olim Fauni  vatesque canebant, Enn. ap. Cic. Brut. 19, 76 (Ann. v. 222 Vahl.); Verg. E. 7, 27; 9, 34; Hor. C. 1, 1, 35; 2, 20, 3; 4, 6, 44; 4, 9, 28; Tac. Or. 9; Quint. 10, 1, 48; 12, 10, 24; Plin. 14, 4, 6, § 56; cf. Varr. L. L. 7, § 36 Müll.—Fem.: sola tuum vates Lesbia vincit opus,i.e. Sappho,Ov. Tr. 3, 7, 20.\n* An oracle, i. e. a teacher, master, authority in any art or profession (post-Aug. and rare): Herophilus medicinae vates mirandā arte,Plin. 11, 37, 88, § 219: Q. Scaevola legum clarissimus et certissimus vates,Val. Max. 8, 12, 1."
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