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vatidicus

vatidicus [cf. CL vates, fatidicus], who utters divinely inspired predictions or warnings, who speaks as a prophet or seer, prophetic, (also as sb.) prophet, seer; b (of words or sim.). angelicas inter turmas sanctasque cohortes, / vatidicis junctos patriarchis atque prophetis Bede Hymn. 14. 144; non me quoque supramemorati viri Guthlaci ~o [gl.: prophetico] pectore quoddam spiritale presagium narrare piget Felix Guthl. 49; omnia vatidici complentur in ordine dicta, / et rerum eventus somnia vera probat Alcuin WillV 34. 27; aderit sed calculus ignis, / forcipe vatidicum solitus purgare labellum Frith. 4; certantibus ‥ omnibus ut ‥ per suum obsequium vel defensionem praeceptum ~ae virginis vinceretur Gosc. Werb. 106C.  b quam vera sit haec assertio mea, quam certa virginis ~a promissa, satis ‥ comprobat haec aetas mea Gosc. Transl. Mild. 30; vatidicas transcurro minas, oracula signa V. Ed. Conf. Metr. I 457.

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