μαντ-εῖον,
Ionic dialect and Epic dialect μαντ-ήϊον, τό, oracle, i.e.,
__I oracular response, mostly in plural, μαντήϊα Τειρεσίαο [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.272, compare 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Fragmenta” 134.9, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.174, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 33c: _sing._, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.111, 9.33, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Mus.” p.87 K. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__II seat of an oracle, [[ 1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 93, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 4, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.46, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.17, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 6.17; τὸ Πυθικὸν μ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 33 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: in plural of a single shrine, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 831, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 66. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III method, process of divination, [[ PMag.Lond. 46.1. ] Refs]
__IV in plural, rewards of divination, [[ LXX.Num.22.7. ] LXX]