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Vates vs Votes - What's the difference?

vates | votes |

As nouns the difference between vates and votes

is that vates is while votes is .

vates

English

Noun

  • A poet or bard who is divinely inspired.
  • * 1999 , Dennis Richard Danielson, The Cambridge Companion to Milton , Cambridge University Press, page 57 [http://books.google.com/books?id=BaiZA_c8SNEC&pg=PA57&dq=vates+poet&lr=lang_en&as_brr=3&as_pt=ALLTYPES]:
    • The volume is haunted by the death of the vates (poet-prophet) Orpheus, who failed to revive Eurydice from death and was then torn apart by maenads.

    Derived terms

    * sacer vates

    Anagrams

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    votes

    English

    Noun

    (head)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (vote)

    • Anagrams

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