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Use "vates" in a sentence
"` Madame, the Latin word vates means at once poet and prophet — a philological observation which most satisfactorily accounts for the striking phenomenon you have just mentioned."
"But in ancient times the prophet and poet were often the same, and one word (as, in Latin, "vates") was used for both."
"Among the Romans a poet was called vates, which is as much as a diviner, foreseer, or prophet, as by his conjoined words, vaticinium and vaticinari, is manifest; so heavenly a title did that excellent people bestow upon this heart-ravishing knowledge."