PROPHESY Copy link • PROPHESYTransitively, vaticinari (general term): canere (to prophesy in verse or rhythm): augurari (to foretell by the flight of birds, etc.; then generally). To prophesy (= anticipate) anything, aliquid augurari; aliquid opinione, or conjectura (Cic.), or mente (Curt.) augurari: to prophesy anybody’s fate, praedicere, quid alicui eventurum sit; his death, alicui mortem augurari. Intransitively, futura praedicere: praenunciare: vaticinari (to prophesy; be a vates).