Seers
group · 3 works · 3 mentions · 7 anchored passages
seers · diviners · the seer's art · Ṛṣis
in the texts
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
The collective seers (ṛṣis), appearing as questioners in the Virāj riddle and as a recurring numbered group (six, seven) in the cosmological number sequence.
Seven fair-winged seers settled down;
three heats have come following the generative flow.
Eight portions are Indra's, six are Yama's, seven sevenfold belong to the seers;
Laches
Diviners whose skill in reading omens is repeatedly distinguished from the deeper knowledge of what is truly good or bad that Nicias's account of courage requires.
That is my view:
it seems to be the seers whom he calls the courageous:
Is it now a seer, think you, who has the gift of judging what is to be dreaded and what to be dared?
Anabasis
Religious specialists who interpret omens from sacrifices.
for the seers had declared that while there would be fighting to do, the issue of the expedition would be fortunate.
After many victims had been sacrificed all the seers finally declared the opinion that the gods in no wise permitted war.