Oraculum, orâculi, n. g pen. cor. Cicero. An Oracle: an aunsweare, or sententence giuen by God.Oracula quæ instinctu diuino afflatúque funduntur.Cic.Diuina oracula.Stat.Vatum oracula, Ouid.Prophecies or predictions.Tristia oracula canere. Luca. To prophecie sorowfull things.Ex oraculo dici arbitrari.Cicer.To thinke a thing as truely spoken as it were out of the Gospel.Dare oracula.Cic.To giue answeares by oracle.Hæcex oraculo Apollinis Pythij edita tibi puta.: nihil potest esse verius. Cice. Thinke you these thinges as true as the gospel, o as Apollo had vttered them.Oraculo edidit Deus.Cic.God gaue aunsweare by oracle or by his worde: God sayde.Oraculum editum est, eas &c.Cic.Aunsweare was giuen by God. &c. Exponere oracula. Cic.Iussis & oraculis deorum immortalium aliquid facere.Cic.Fundere oraculum. Ci. To vtter an oracle, or answeare from God.Nectere oracula.Stat. Petere oraculum Deo. Cic.Poscere oracula precibus. Vir. Præposita oraculo sacerdos.Cic.Augustæ reserabo oracula mentis.Ouid.Vti oraculo.Tacit. Oraculum pro Templo in quo responsa dantur. Plin. Oraculum Catonis est. Plin. This is the notable saying or iudgement of wise Cato
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ōrācŭlum (sync. oraclum: ex oraclo, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 21, 42, or Trag. v. 65 Vahl.; plur, oracla, Att. ap. Non. 488, 2, or Trag. Rel. p. 185 Rib.; Ov. M. 1, 321), i, n. [oro], a divine announcement, an oracle (class.). I.Lit.: oracula ex eo ipso appellata sunt, quod inest in his deorum oratio, Cic. Top. 20, 77: quid est enim oraculum? nempe voluntas divina hominis ore enuntiata, Sen. Contr. 1 praef.: edere, Cic. Tusc. 1, 48, 116: petere a Dodonā, id. Div. 1, 43, 95: quaerere, Verg. G. 4, 449: poscere, id. A. 3, 456: consulere, Ov. M. 3, 8: Delphis oracula cessant, Juv. 6, 555.—II.Transf.A. In gen., a prophetic declaration, a prophecy: exposui somnii et furoris oracula, Cic. Div. 1, 32, 70; 1, 50, 115.—B.A place where oracular responses were given, an oracle: illud oraculum Delphis tam celebre, Cic. Div. 1, 19, 37: Hammonis, Plin. 12, 23, 49, 107: Delphicum, Macr. S. 1, 18, 4.—2. Esp. (eccl. Lat.), the mercy-seat, the place in the tabernacle in which the presence of God was manifest, Vulg. Exod. 25, 18; 40, 18: oraculum templi, sanctum sanctorum, id. 3 Reg. 8, 6.—C.An oracular saying, oracle pronounced by a man: haec ego nunc physicorum oracula fundo, Cic. N. D. 1, 24, 66: inde illa reliqua oracula: nequam agricolam esse, etc., Plin. 18, 6, 8, 40.— D.An imperial rescript, Just. Inst. 1, 11, 11.