prŏ-for | prŏfātum, i (noun N) : (
* Inf. profarier, Prud. στεφ. 10, 939), v. dep. a., to say or speak out, to say, speak (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose).
* In gen.: veteres Casmenas cascam rem volo profari, tell, relate, Att. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 28 Müll.: quod jam et mehe Piget paternum nomen, maternum pudet Profari, Pac. ap. Non. 424, 4 (Trag. Rel. v. 145 Rib.): pudor prohibebat plura profari,Hor. S. 1, 6, 57: tum breviter Dido, vultum demissa, profatur,Verg. A. 1, 561: et sic accensa profatur,id. ib. 4, 364: quibus ille profatur: Forsitan, etc.,Ov. M. 11, 289: vera profari,Petr. 121: sic ille profatus,Luc. 9, 251: clamore magno,Sil. 11, 211.
* In partic., to foretell, predict, prophesy: quando dies adveniet, quem profata Morta est, Liv. And. ap. Gell. 3, 16, 11 (acc. to Hom. Odyss. 2, 99): Pythia quae tripodi a Phoebi lauroque profatur,Lucr. 1, 739; 5, 112: Delio profante,Petr. 89; Dig. 21, 1, 1. —Hence, . , n., a statement, proposition, axiom (post-class.): ἀξιώματα, quae M. Varro alias profata, alias proloquia appellat, Gell. 16, 8, 2.

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