VATES, is, m. & f. (q. a fari) one who foretold future events, a prophet or prophetess, a diviner or soothsayer; [...] --VATICINIUM, i, n. a prediction, an oracle or prophecy, [...] --VATICINUS, a, prophetic; [...] --VATICINARI, (fatum & cano) to prophecy, to foretell, to divine; [...] --VATICINATIO, onis, f. a prophecying, divination; a prophecy, a prediction; [...]
"Vates," Alexander Adam's A Compendious Dictionary of the Latin Tongue, Edinburgh: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1805 (, pp. 777-778).
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