προφήτ-ης, ου,
Doric dialect and Boeotian dialect προφάτας [ᾱ], α, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus (see. below), 6th c.BC: Corinna Lyrica “Supp.” 2.68: ὁ· ] Refs 6th c.BC+] (πρό, φημί):— properly one who speaks for a god and interprets his will to man, Διὸς π. interpreter, expounder of the will of Zeus, of Tiresias, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 1.60 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Βάκχου π., perhaps of Orpheus, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 972 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; [Διονύσου] π., of the Bacchae, [[ [prev. author] “Ba.” 551 (Lyric poetry)] Refs]; Νηρέως π., of Glaucus, [[ [prev. author] “Or.” 364 ] Refs]; especially of the Delphic Apollo, Διὸς π. ἐστὶ Λοξίας πατρός [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 19 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of the minister and interpreter at Delphi, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.36, 37 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; at the Ptoön,[[[prev. work] 135, “IG” 7.4135.13 (2nd c.BC)] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; compare προφῆτις.
__2 title of official keepers of the oracle at Branchidae, [[ “CIG” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” 2884, +others, “Supp.epigram” 1.426 (Milet., 1st c.AD)] Refs 1st c.AD+]; elsewhere, [[ “IG” 14.961, 1032, 1084, 2433 (from Massilia), 9(2).1109.22 (Coropa, 2nd-1st c.BC), etc. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__2.b in Egyptian temples, member of the highest order of the clergy, priest, π. θεῶν Εὐεργετῶν [[ “PTeb.” 6.3 (2nd c.BC),compare “OGI” 56.59 (Canopus, 3rd c.BC), etc. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__3 interpreter, expounder of the utterances of the μάντις (which see), [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 72a: hence, of Poets, Πιερίδων π. 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Pae.” 6.6; Μουσᾶν π. 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 8.3, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 262d. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]