Vates vs Yates - What's the difference?
vates | yates |
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]:
As nouns the difference between vates and yates
is that vates is a poet or bard who is divinely inspired while yates is plural of lang=en.As a proper noun Yates is
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English
Noun
- 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.