ὀττεύομαι

ὀττεύομαι, Att. for ὀσσεύομαι (which does not occur),

• divine from an ominous voice or sound (ὄσσα) , ὀττευομένη δὲ κάθηται she sits looking for omens, of a lover, Ar. Lys. 597; ταῖς τούτων κληδόσι by the cries of children, Plu. Isid. 2.356e; πρὸς [κόρακος] βοήν Ael. NA 1.48: generally, have forebodings of a thing, τὸ μέλλον Plb. 27.16.5; τι περὶ τῶν ὅλων Id. 1.11.15: c. (acc. et) inf., augur that . ., Porph. Antr. 33, Luc. Lex. 19.
• • II regard as ominous, τὴν τύχην, τὸ ἔργον, D.H. 9.23, 55: hence, deprecate as ill-omened, πάντα τῦφον Id. 2.19.—The Act. ὀττεύουσιν prob. f.l. in Ael. NA 3.9 (ὀπυίουσιν cj. Pierson Moer. p.279 P.): κλῃδονίζομαι was the equiv. Hellenic form, acc. to Moer. l.c.