προφήτ-ης,ου, Dor. and Boeot.
προφάτας[ᾱ], α, Pi. (v. infr.), Corinn. Supp. 2.68 :ὁ:(πρό, φημί):— prop.
A. one who speaks for a god and interprets his willto man,Διὸς π. interpreter, expounder of the willof Zeus, of Tiresias, Pi. N. 1.60 ;Βάκχου π., perh. of Orpheus, E. Rh. 972 ; [Διονύσου] π., of the Bacchae, Id. Ba. 551 (lyr.);Νηρέως π., of Glaucus, Id. Or. 364 ; esp. of the Delphic Apollo, Διὸς π. ἐστὶ Λοξίας πατρός
A. Eu. 19
; of theministerandinterpreterat Delphi, Hdt. 8.36 , 37 ; at the Ptoön, ib. 135 , IG 7.4135.13
(ii B.C.); cf.προφῆτις.
2. title of officialkeepers of the oracleat Branchidae, CIG 2884 , al., Supp.Epigr. 1.426 (Milet.,i A.D.); elsewhere, IG 14.961 , 1032 , 1084 , 2433 (Massilia), 9(2).1109.22 (Coropa,ii/i B.C.), etc.
b. in Egyptian temples,member of the highest order of the clergy, priest, π. θεῶν Εὐεργετῶν
PTeb. 6.3
(ii B.C.), cf. OGI 56.59 (Canopus,iii B.C.), etc.
3. interpreter, expounderof the utterances of theμάντις(q.v.), Pl. Ti. 72a : hence, of Poets, Πιερίδων π.